This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...pure air in the apartments of children was pointed out in the early part of this chapter. have here only to speak of open air exercise. Daily experience proves how invigorating and vivifying is its influence upon the system of the young. We must, however, act prudently in this matter. A delicate infant, horn late in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...pure air in the apartments of children was pointed out in the early part of this chapter. have here only to speak of open air exercise. Daily experience proves how invigorating and vivifying is its influence upon the system of the young. We must, however, act prudently in this matter. A delicate infant, horn late in the autumn, will scarcely be able to be taken out, in a changeable climate like ours, before the succeeding spring, and, provided its apartments are large, often changed, and well ventilated, he will not suffer from the confinement. No opportunity, however, should be lost, if the child be strong and healthy, of taking him into the open air at stated periods. At all seasons, however, regard must be had to the state of the weather. To a damp condition of the atmosphere the infant should never be exposed; it is one of the most powerful exciting causes of consumptive disease: and the same caution is necessary in reference to an easterly wind, being more productive, I believe, of inflammation of the lungs, ( so frequent in childhood, ) than any other cause. The nurse should always have strict orders not to loiter and linger about, exposing the infant; the source frequently of a twofold evil, a moral one to herself, and a physical one to her charge. Exercise, also, like air, is essentially important to the health of the infant. Its first exercise, of course, will be in the nurse's arms: and here I would observe, that the mode of carrying an infant must be carefully attended to. Upon this subject I cannot do better than quote the words of Dr. Ebcrle; he remarks, " The spine and its muscles seldom acquire sufficient strength and firmness before the end of the third month, to enable the child to support its body in an upright position, without inconv...
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