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Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

Chapter 93: INDEX.
By Pye Henry Chavasse
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A practical manual offers plainspoken medical and domestic guidance for married women, combining two parts: counsel for wives on preserving personal health and managing pregnancy, labor, and breastfeeding, and guidance for mothers on the care and management of children. It emphasizes preventative measures and clear remedies, urging reforms in diet, sleep, exercise, and moderation of stimulants, and aims to dispel common misconceptions surrounding confinement and infant care. The tone is direct and prescriptive, prioritizing sensible household habits, hygiene, and timely treatment to reduce maternal weakness, reproductive difficulty, and infant ill health.

INDEX.

  • Ablution of a child, 1120.
    • of an infant, 1016.
    • of a youth, 1318.
    • thorough of boy and girl, 1318.
  • Accidents of children, 1297.
  • Acne, symptoms and treatment of, 1390.
  • Advice to a mother if her infant be poorly, 1148.
    • to Mr. Paterfamilias, 1087.
  • Ailments, the distinction between serious and slight, 1087.
  • Air and exercise for youth, 1337.
    • the importance of good, 1152.
    • the necessity of fresh and changing the, 1151.
  • American ladies, 1398.
  • Amusements for a child, 1177.
  • Ankles, weak, 1116.
  • Antipathies of a child, 1149.
  • Aperients for a child, 1255.
    • for an infant, 1091.
    • for a new-born babe, 1086.
    • for a youth, 1385.
    • danger of frequent, 1385.
  • Appeal to mothers, 1389.
  • Appetite, on a child losing his, 1146.
  • Applications, hot, 1295.
  • Apron, washing, 1022.
  • Archery, 1344.
  • Arnold, Doctor, on corporal punishment, 1349.
  • Arrow-root for an infant, 1040.
  • Artificial food for an infant at breast, 1036.
  • Asses’ milk, 1046.
  • Babes should kick on floor, 1076.
  • Baby-slaughter, 1045.
  • Baked crumb of bread for an infant, 1037.
    • flour for an infant, 1038.
  • Bakers’ and home-made bread, 1148.
  • Bathing after full meal, 1324.
  • Baths, cold, tepid, and warm, 1325.
  • Baths, warm, as a remedy for flatulence, 1099.
  • Beard best respirator, 1380.
  • Bed, on placing child in, 1189.
  • Beds, feather, 1188.
    • purification of, 1238.
  • Bed-rooms, the ventilation of, 1359.
    • cool, 1190.
    • a plan to ventilate, 1359.
  • Bee, the sting of, 1312.
  • Beef, salted or boiled, 1141.
  • Belladonna, poisoning by, 1314.
  • Belly-band, when to discontinue, 1028.
  • Beverage for a child, 1143.
  • “Black eye,” remedies for, 1298.
  • Bladder and bowels of an infant, 1084.
  • Bleeding from navel, how to restrain, 1024.
  • Blood, spitting of, 1374.
  • Blows and bruises, 1298.
  • Boarding-schools for females, 1351.
    • on cheap (note), 1352.
  • Boiled bread for infants, 1036.
    • flour for infants’ food, 1037.
  • Boils, the treatment of, 1252.
  • Boots and shoes, 1127, 1394.
  • Bottles, the best nursing, 1041.
  • Boulogne sore-throat, 1217.
  • Bow legs, 1277.
  • Bowels, large, of children, 1255.
    • looseness of, 1100.
    • protrusion of lower, 1258.
  • Boys should be made strong, 1343.
  • Brain, water on the, 1199.
  • Bran to soften water, 1280.
  • Bran poultices, 1296.
  • Breakfast of a child, 1135.
  • Breast, on early putting an infant to, 1032.
  • Breathing exercise, 1344.
  • Brimstone and treacle, 1261.
  • Brown and Polson’s Corn Flour, 1039.
  • Bronchitis, the treatment of, 1213.
  • Broth for infants, 1116.
    • for a new-born infant, 1041.
    • and soup, 1335.
  • Brothers and sisters, 1351.
  • Bruises, remedies for, 1298.
  • Burns and scalds, 1303.
  • Burning of women, 1152.
  • Bullying a child, 1166.
  • Butter, wholesome, 1135.
  • Calomel, the danger of a mother prescribing, 1095.
    • the ill effects of, 1385.
  • Camphor makes teeth brittle, 1365.
  • Caning a boy, 1347.
  • Caps, flannel, 1028.
  • Carpets in nurseries, 1171.
  • Carriage exercise, 1341.
  • Carron oil in burns, 1305.
  • Castor oil “to heal the bowels,” 1096.
  • Cat, bites and scratches of a, 1311.
  • “Chafings” of infants, the treatment of, 1088.
  • Chairs, straight-backed, 1354.
  • Change of air, 1263.
    • linen in sickness, 1267.
  • Chapped hands, legs, etc., 1280.
  • Chest, keeping warm the upper part of the, 1328.
  • “Chicken-breasted” and narrow-breasted children, 1274.
  • Chicken-pox, 1239.
  • Chilblains, 1279.
  • Child should dine with parents, 1150.
  • “Child-crowing,” 1206.
    • the treatment of a paroxysm, 1207.
  • Children’s hour, 1162.
  • Chimneys, on the stopping of, 1171, 1266.
  • Chiropodists (note), 1394.
  • Chlorosis or green sickness, 1396, 1397.
    • rare in rural districts, 1399.
  • “Choking,” what to be done in a case of, 1308.
  • Cisterns, best kind of, 1143.
  • Clothes, on airing an infant’s, 1030.
    • the ill effects of tight, 1124.
  • Clothing of children, 1123.
  • Coffee as an aperient, 1285, 1333.
  • Coin, on the swallowing of a, 1317.
  • Cold bedroom healthy, 1191.
    • a feverish, 1296.
    • on child always catching, 1264.
    • feet, method to warm, 1161.
  • Concluding remarks on infancy, 1119.
  • Constipation, prevention and cure of, 1385.
  • Consumption attacks the upper part of the lungs, 1329.
    • the age at which it usually appears, 1374.
    • causes of, 1377.
    • death-rate, 1373.
    • importance of early consulting a medical man in, 1372.
    • spitting of blood in, 1372.
    • symptoms of, 1374.
  • Consumptive patient, the treatment of a, 1377.
  • Convulsions of children, 1066, 1089.
    • from hooping-cough, 1090.
  • Cooked fruit for child, 1134.
  • Coroners’ inquests on infants, 1082.
  • Corporal punishment at schools, 1347.
  • Corns, 1392, 1394.
  • Costiveness of infants, the means to prevent, 1096.
    • remedies for, 1091.
  • Costiveness, the reason why so prevalent, 1388.
  • Cough, the danger of stopping a, 1074.
  • Cow, the importance of having the milk from ONE, 1042, 1046.
  • Cream and egg, 1135.
    • and water for babe, 1135.
  • Crinoline and burning of ladies, 1152.
  • Croquet for girls, 1344.
  • Crossness in a sick child, 1268.
  • Croup, 1200.
    • the treatment of, 1202.
  • Cry of infant, 1115.
  • Cure, artificial and natural, 1277.
  • “Curious phenomenon” in scarlet fever, 1228.
  • Cut finger, the application for, 1297.
  • Dancing and skipping, 1344.
  • Danger of constantly giving physic, 1119.
  • Delicate child, plan to strengthen a, 1262.
  • Dentition, 1062.
    • lancing of gums, 1064.
    • second, 1094.
    • symptoms and treatment of painful, 1071.
  • Diarrhœa of infants, 1100.
    • treatment of, 1103.
  • Diet of a child who has cut his teeth, 1135.
    • of children, 1132.
    • of a dry-nursed child, 1046.
    • of infants, 1032.
    • on a mother being particular in attending to, 1142.
    • of youth, 1332.
  • Dietary, an infant’s, 1036.
  • Dinner for a child, 1133.
  • Diphtheria, symptoms, causes, and treatment of, 1217–223.
  • Dirty child, a, 1085.
  • Diseased nature and strange eruptions, 1291.
  • Diseases of children, 1195.
    • girls, 1396.
    • infants, 1085.
    • obscure, 1283.
    • the prevention of, 1366.
    • produced by tight lacing, 1330.
    • symptoms of serious, 1088.
  • Doctor, on early calling in, 1293.
  • Dog, the bite of a, 1309.
  • Doleful child, 1157.
  • Drainage, 1153, 1238.
  • Dress, female, 1331.
    • of a child while asleep, 1080.
  • Drinking fountains, 1043.
  • Dropping child, danger of, 1299.
  • Dry-nursed children, the best food for, 1046.
  • “Dusting-powder” for infants, 1020.
  • Dysentery, symptoms, and treatment of, 1104–108.
  • Ear, discharges from, 1254.
    • removal of a pea or bead from, 1316.
  • Earache, treatment of, 1253.
  • Earwig in ear, 1316.
  • Early rising, 1192, 1362.
  • Education of children, 1084.
  • Education in infant schools, 1083.
    • home, the best for girls, 1351.
    • modern, 1351.
    • for youth, 1347.
  • Eggs for children, 1042.
  • Enema apparatus (note), 1262.
  • Engravings in nurseries, 1055.
  • Eruptions about the mouth, 1289.
  • Excoriations, applications for, 1021.
    • best remedy for, 1021.
  • Exercise, 1075, 1172, 1337.
    • best composing medicine, 1092.
    • for children, 1072.
    • in wet weather, 1175.
    • on violently tossing infants, 1077.
    • horse and pony, 1339.
    • an infant himself taking, 1076.
    • in wet weather, 1075.
    • for youth, 1338.
  • Fecal matter in pump-water, 1238.
  • Fainting, 1383.
    • from constipation, 1384.
    • from debility, 1384.
    • from disordered stomach, 1384.
  • Falling off of hair, 1327.
  • Falls on the head, 1299.
  • Fashion, dangerous effects of strictly attending to, 1331.
    • the present, of dressing children, 1131.
  • Fashionable desiderata for complexion, 1397.
  • Favoritism, 1067.
  • Feeding infants, proper times for, at breast, 1043.
  • Feet, smelling, 1395.
  • Female dress, 1331.
  • Fire, on a child playing with, 1302.
    • danger of back to, 1153.
    • in night nursery, 1190.
    • the manner of extinguishing, if clothes be on, 1302.
    • guards, 1152, 1302.
  • Fire-proof, making dresses, 1303.
  • Flannel night-gowns, 1126.
    • shirts for a delicate child, 1126.
    • waistcoats, 1328.
  • Flatulence, remedies for, 1097, 1294.
  • Fleas, to drive away, 1272.
  • Flute, bugle, and other wind instruments, 1344.
  • Fly-pole, 1345.
  • Fog, on sending child out in, 1175.
  • Folly of giving physic after vaccination, 1061.
  • Food, artificial, during suckling, 1043.
    • care in preparing infants’, 1041.
    • for dry-nursed infants, 1036, 1046.
    • for infants who are sucking, 1036.
  • Frightening a child, 1159.
  • Fruit, as an aperient, 1258.
  • Garters impede circulation, 1128.
  • Gin or peppermint in infants’ food, 1055.
  • Giving joy to a child, 1162.
  • Glass, a child swallowing broken, 1316.
  • Gluttony, 1337.
  • Glycerin soap, 1281.
  • Goat’s milk, 1046.
  • Godfrey’s Cordial, 1098.
    • poisoning by, treatment, 1313.
  • Grazed skin, 1312.
  • Green dresses poisonous, 1155, 1332.
    • paper-hangings for nurseries, 1155.
  • “Gripings” of infants, 1098.
  • “Gross superstition,” 1230.
  • Gums, the lancing of the, 1064.
  • Gum-boil, cause and treatment, 1391.
  • Gum-sticks, the best, 1067.
  • Gymnasium, value of, 1343.
  • Hair, the best application for the, 1326.
  • Half-washed and half-starved child, 1177.
  • Hand-swing, 1345.
  • Happiness to a child, 1162.
  • Happy child, 1163.
  • Hard’s Farinaceous Food, 1038.
  • Hardening of children’s constitutions, 1126.
  • Hats for a child, the best kind, 1124.
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, on American ladies, 1398.
  • Head, fall upon, 1299.
  • Heat, external application of, 1295.
  • Hiccoughs of infants, 1100.
  • Hints conducive to the well-doing of a child, 1157.
  • Home of childhood—the nursery, 1157.
  • Hooping-cough, 1243.
  • Horse exercise for boys or girls, 1339.
    • and pony exercise, 1339.
  • Hot-water bag or bottle, 1295.
  • Household work for girls, 1355.
  • Hydrophobia, 1309.
  • Hysterics, 1400, 1402.
  • India-rubber hot-water bottle, 1295.
  • Infants should be encouraged to use exertion, 1076.
  • Infant schools, 1183.
  • Ipecacuanha wine, preservation of, 1205.
  • Ladies “affecting the saddle,” 1344.
  • Laudanum, poisoning by, 1313.
  • Law, physic, and divinity, 1356.
  • Leaden cisterns, 1143.
  • Learning without health, 1275.
  • Leech-bites, the way to restrain bleeding from, 1117.
  • Lessons for child, 1180.
  • Lice in head after illness, 1271.
  • Light, best artificial, for nursery, 1156.
    • the importance of, to health, 1156.
  • Lime in the eye, 1307.
    • to harden the bones, 1288.
  • Lime-water and milk, 1140.
  • “Looseness of the bowels,” the treatment of, 1101.
  • Love of children, 1164.
  • Lucifer matches, the poisonous effects of, 1156, 1301.
  • Luncheon for a child, 1140.
  • Lungs, inflammation of, 1126, 1209.
    • precautions to prevent, 1273.
    • symptoms of, 1209.
    • treatment of, 1209.
  • Lying lips of a child, 1167.
  • Mad dog, the bite of, 1309.
    • description of, 1310.
  • Magnesia to cool a child, 1096.
  • Massacre of innocents, 1045.
  • Mattresses, horse-hair, best for child, 1188.
  • Meals, a child’s, 1144.
  • Measles, 1223.
    • and scarlet fever, 1227.
    • treatment of, 1224.
  • Meat, daily, on giving, 1333.
    • raw, in long-standing diarrhœa, 1262.
    • in exhaustive diseases, 1262.
    • when a child should commence taking, 1132.
  • Meddlesome treatment, 1291.
  • Medical man, a mother’s treatment toward, 1291.
  • Medicine, the best way of administering, 1264.
    • on giving new-born infants, 1085.
    • on making palatable (note), 1265.
  • Menstruating female during suckling, 1048.
  • Mercury, on the danger of parents giving, 1094, 1385.
  • Milk, on the importance of having it from ONE cow, 1036, 1046.
    • bad, very nasty, 1138.
    • for babe indispensable, 1048.
    • or meat, or both, 1139.
    • a plan to make a child take, 1139.
    • the value of, for children, 1136.
    • a way to prevent, turning sour, 1140.
    • crust, 1289.
  • Mismanaged baby, 1014.
  • Modified small-pox and chicken-pox, 1242.
  • Mother, fretting, injurious to infant, 1053.
    • a foolish, 1083.
    • of many diseases, 1377.
  • Mother’s and cow’s milk, on mixing, 1036.
  • Motions, healthy, of babe, 1100.
  • Mumps, 1251.
  • Napkins, when to dispense with, 1084.
  • Nature’s physic, 1118.
  • Navel, management of the, 1024.
  • Nervous and unhappy young ladies, 1395.
  • Nettle-rash, 1108.
  • New-born infants and aperients, 1085.
  • Night-terrors, 1159.
  • Nose, removal of foreign substances from, 1315.
    • bleeding from, means to restrain, 1381.
  • Nurse, on the choice of a, 1158.
    • a lazy, 1161.
    • strong and active, 1158.
    • young, not desirable, 1158.
    • for the sick, 1269.
  • Nursery-basin, 1017.
  • Nursery a child’s own domain, 1157, 1179.
    • selection, warming, ventilation, arrangements of, 1150.
  • Nursery of a sick child, 1266.
    • on the light of a, 1156.
    • must be airy, 1151.
    • observations, further, 1151.
    • windows to be often opened, 1156.
  • Opium, a case of poisoning by, 1074.
    • the danger of administering, to infants, 1098.
    • the treatment of poisoning by, 1313.
  • Over-education, 1184.
  • Paint-boxes dangerous as toys, 1180.
  • Peevishness of a child, the plan to allay, 1164.
  • Perambulators, 1173.
  • Physicking a child, on the frequent, 1118.
  • Pies and puddings, 1133.
  • Pimples of the face, treatment of, 1390.
  • Pin, on a child’s swallowing, 1317.
  • Play, a course of education in, 1185.
  • Play-grounds for children, 1182.
  • Pleasant words to a child, 1166.
  • Poisoning, accidental, 1313.
    • by the breath, 1189.
  • Poppy-syrup, 1098.
  • Pork, an improper meat for children, 1141.
  • Position of a sleeping child, 1190.
  • Potatoes for children, 1142.
  • Poultice, a white-bread, 1297.
  • Powder, “dusting,” 1020.
  • Precocity of intellect, 1366.
  • Precocious youths, the health of, 1367.
  • Princess of Wales and her baby (note), 1022.
  • Professions and trades, 1355.
  • Proper person to wash an infant, 1022.
  • Prunes, the best way of stewing, 1258.
  • Profession or trade, choice of, for delicate youth, 1355.
    • delicate youths should be brought up to, 1357.
  • Puddings for children, 1133.
  • Quack medicines, 1098.
  • Quacking an infant, 1096.
  • Quicklime in eye, 1307.
  • Red-gum, 1109.
  • Respiration, products of, poisonous, 1359.
  • Rest, the best time for a child to retire to, 1189.
  • Revaccination, importance of, 1057.
    • every seven years, 1057.
  • Rheumatic fever, flannel vest and drawers, 1328.
  • Ribs, bulging out of, 1371.
  • Rice, prepared as an infant’s food, 1039.
  • Richardson, Dr., ether spray, 1382.
  • Rickets, 1285.
    • various degrees of, 1286.
  • Rocking-chairs, and rockers to cradle, 1079.
  • Rocking infants to sleep, 1078.
  • Rooms, ill effects of dark, 1156.
  • Round shoulders, 1275, 1370.
  • Round-worm, 1282.
  • Running scall, 1289.
  • Rupture, 1026, 1027.
  • Rusks, 1039.
  • Sallowness, cause of, in young girls, 1338.
  • Salt water and fresh water, 1324.
  • Salt should be added to an infant’s food, 1042.
    • bag of hot, 1295.
    • necessary to human life, 1284.
    • meats for children, 1141.
  • Salt and water ablutions for a delicate child, 1123.
    • for teeth and gums, 1364.
  • Scalds and burns, 1303.
  • Scarlatina, 1226.
  • Scarlet fever, 1226.
    • the contagion of, 1237.
    • the danger of giving aperients in, 1227.
    • the dropsy of, 1227, 1237.
    • management of child after, 1236.
    • and measles, the importance of distinguishing between, 1229.
    • the principal danger of, 1227.
    • purification of house after, 1238.
    • treatment of, 1229.
  • Schools, female boarding, 1351.
  • Screaming in sleep, 1250.
  • Scrofula, 1367.
    • prevention of, 1368.
  • Scurfy head, 1122.
  • Sea bathing and fresh water bathing, 1324.
    • for a young child, 1264.
  • Secrets, talking, before child, 1187.
  • Senna as an aperient, 1255.
  • Shivering fit, importance of attending to a, 1249.
    • treatment of, 1250.
  • Shoes, plan to waterproof, 1329.
    • preferable to boots, 1128.
    • and stockings for children and youths, 1127, 1329.
    • the ill effects of tight, 1128.
  • “Shortening” an infant, 1032.
  • Shoulder-blades “growing out,” 1275.
  • Sick child, the nursing of a, 1265.
    • not to be stuffed with food, 1269.
  • Sick-room, management of, 1265.
  • Sickness of infants, 1110.
  • Singing and reading aloud, 1346.
    • beneficial to a child, 1187.
  • Single-stick, 1342.
  • Sitting with back to fire, 1153.
  • Sitz-bath, for protrusion of bowels, 1260.
  • Skating for boys and girls, 1345.
  • Skin, grazed, 1312.
  • Sleeping-rooms, importance of well ventilating, 1359.
  • Sleep of children, 1188.
    • infants, 1077.
    • in middle of day beneficial, 1188.
    • much, necessary for infants, 1080.
    • temperature of infant’s bedroom during, 1077.
    • right time of putting a child to, 1189.
    • rocking infants to, 1077.
  • Sleep of youth, 1362.
  • Slippers, the best for sick-room (note), 1269.
  • Small-pox, 1056.
    • a pest and disgrace, 1057.
    • modified, 1240.
    • when in neighborhood, 1059.
    • to prevent pitting of, 1279.
  • Smothering of infants, the cause, 1082.
  • Socks and stockings for a child, 1127.
  • Soda, ill effects of washing clothes with, 1021.
  • Sounds, joyful, 1163.
  • Soups and broths, 1254.
  • Speak gently to a child, 1165.
  • Spencer, a knitted worsted, 1371.
  • Spines, distorted, 1188, 1371.
  • Spirits, deadly effects of, to the young, 1335.
  • Spitting of blood, 1372, 1374.
    • precautions, 1377.
  • Spurious croup, 1206.
  • Stammering, cause of, 1169.
  • Stays, the ill effects of, 1330.
  • Stillness of sick-room, 1269.
  • Sting of bee or wasp, 1312.
  • Stir-about and milk, 1136.
  • Stockings and shoes, 1127, 1329.
  • Stooping in a girl, 1370.
  • Stopping of chimneys, 1171, 1266.
  • Stuffing a sick child with food, 1269.
  • “Stuffing of the nose,” of infants, 1110.
  • “Sty,” treatment of, 1255.
  • Suckling, the proper times of, 1035.
  • Suet-pudding, 1133.
  • Sugar for infants, 1042, 1055.
    • confectionery, 1148.
    • raw, as an aperient, 1056.
  • Sunstroke, 1125.
  • Sunday, 1181.
  • Supper for a child and for a youth, 1144, 1336.
  • Surfeit water and saffron tea, 1224.
  • Sweetmeats and cakes, 1148.
  • Swimming, on boys and girls, 1322.
  • Symptoms of serious diseases, 1195.
  • Tape-worm, 1282.
  • Taste for things refined, 1156.
  • Tea, on giving a child, 1147.
    • green, the ill effects of, 1147, 1336.
  • Teeth, attention to, importance of, 1364.
    • child should not have meat until he have cut several, 1132.
    • the diet of a child who has cut all his, 1132.
    • and gums, 1364.
    • right way of brushing, 1365.
    • appearance and number of first set of, 1063.
    • appearance and number of second set of, 1194.
    • second crop of, 1194.
  • Teething, 1062.
  • Teething, eruptions from, 1074.
    • frequent cause of sickness, 1111.
    • fruitful source of disease, 1070.
    • purging during, 1073.
    • restlessness from, 1294.
    • second, 1194.
    • symptoms and treatment of painful, 1071.
    • in town and country, 1073.
  • Temperature and ventilation of a nursery, 1150.
    • of a warm bath, 1294.
  • Thread-worm, 1282.
  • Throats, sore, precautions to prevent, 1370.
  • Thrush, cause, symptoms, prevention, and cure of, 1112.
  • Thumb, best gum-stick, 1067.
  • Tight bands, belts, and hats, 1124.
  • Tight lacing, the ill effects of, 1330.
  • Times for suckling an infant, 1035.
  • Tobacco smoking for boys, 1380.
    • cases illustrating the danger of, 1381.
  • Toe-nails, the right way of cutting, 1130.
  • Tongue-tied, an infant, 1034.
  • “Tooth-cough,” 1074.
  • Tooth-powder, an excellent, 1364.
  • Top crust of bread as infant’s food, 1039.
  • Tous-les-mois, 1037.
  • Toys, children’s, 1181.
  • Trade or profession for delicate youth, 1358.
  • Treatment of a delicate child, 1263.
    • of some urgent serious diseases, 1087, 1196.
  • Truth, the love of, 1167.
  • Tub, commencement of washing infant in, 1017.
  • Tumbling and rolling of a child, 1176.
  • Vaccination, 1056.
  • Veal for a child, 1141.
  • Vegetables for a child, 1142.
  • Ventilation, and on stopping of chimneys, 1171, 1266.
  • Violet powder, 1020.
  • Walking, on the early, of infants, 1172.
    • exercise, value of, 1338.
    • in his sleep, a child, 1193.
  • Warm baths for children, 1294.
    • external applications, 1295.
  • Warts, 1394.
  • Washing of a child, 1120.
    • an infant, 1016.
    • a new-born infant’s head with brandy, 1018.
    • a nursery floor, 1154.
  • Wasp, the sting of a, 1312.
  • Water, on the importance of good, 1143.
    • on the brain, 1199.
    • -closet, on going regularly to, 1387, 1389.
    • cold and warm, for ablution, 1119.
  • Weaned child, the diet of a, 1054.
  • Weaning, proper time and manner of, 1053, 1054.
  • Weather, on a child almost living in the air in fine, 1175.
    • on sending a child out in wet, 1175.
  • Weight of new-born infants (note), 1080.
  • Wet-flannel application, 1296.
  • Wet-nurse, 1045.
    • for feeble babe, 1049.
  • “Wetting the bed” during sleep, 1277.
  • Wheezing of a new-born infant, 1085.
  • White lily leaf for bruises, 1299.
  • Windows of a nursery, 1156.
  • Windpipe, foreign substance in, 1317.
  • Wine for children and youths, 1146, 1335.
  • Winter clothing, 1130.
  • Woolen garments, 1126, 1327.
  • Worms, 1282.
    • quack medicines for, 1283.