INDEX.
- Ablution of a child, 108
- Ablution of an infant, 19
- Ablution of a youth, 274
- Ablution, thorough, of a boy and girl, 274
- Accidents of children, 256
- Acne, or red pimples, symptoms and treatment of, 335
- Advice to a mother if her infant be poorly, 105
- Advice to Mr. Paterfamilias, 163
- Ailments, the distinction between serious and slight, 79
- Ailments, slight, of infants, 77
- Air and exercise for youth, 290
- Air, the importance of good, 134
- Air, the necessity of fresh, and changing the, 134
- American ladies, health and beauty of, 342
- Amusements for a child, 155
- Amusements for a girl, 296
- Amusements for a boy, 294
- Ankles, of a babe, weak, 104
- Antipathies of a child, 132
- Aperients for a child, 221
- Aperients, the effect of, on an infant, 83
- Aperients, the effect of, on a new-born babe, 78
- Aperients, the effect of, on a youth, 331
- Aperients, danger in frequent use of, 331
- Appeal to mothers, 334
- Appetite, on a child losing his, 130
- Applications, warm external, 254
- Apron to wear when washing, 25
- Archery, croquet, skating, etc., 296
- Arnold, Dr., on corporal punishment, 300
- Arrow-root, the use of, for an infant, 40
- Artificial food for an infant, 36
- Asses’ milk more suitable for the delicate, 44
- Babes should kick about on the floor, 70
- Baby-slaughter, or “massacre of the innocents”, 43
- Baked crumb of bread for an infant, 37
- Baked flour for an infant, 38
- Bakers’ and home-made bread, 132
- Band, when to discontinue the use of, 30
- Bathing after a full meal, 279
- Baths, cold, tepid and warm, 280
- Baths, warm, instead of cordials and carminatives, 88
- Beard as a respirator, covering and improvement, 326
- Bed, on placing the child in his, 165
- Beds, feather, ill effects of, 164
- Beds, cleansing and purification of, 206
- Bed-rooms, the ventilation of, 308
- Bed-rooms should be cool, 166
- Bed-rooms, a plan to ventilate, 308
- Bee, best application for the sting of a, 268
- Beef, salted or boiled, 126
- Belladonna, poisoning by, 270
- Beverage for a child, 127
- “Black eye,” remedies for a, 257
- Bleeding of infant, how nurse can restrain, 27
- Bleeding, violent, from the nose, 328
- Blood, the spitting of, 332
- Blows and bruises of child, 256
- Boarding-schools for females, 301
- Boarding-schools, remarks on cheap, 303
- Boiled bread for infants, 36
- Boiled flour for infants’ food, 37
- Boils, the best application for, 218
- Boots and shoes for the prevention of corns, 339
- Bottles, the use of, in giving artificial food, 40
- Boulogne sore throat, or diphtheria, 188
- Bow legs, the causes and treatment of, 239
- Bowels, care in regard to, 76
- Bowels, large, of children, 220
- Bowels, various symptoms in regard to, 90
- Bowels, the protrusion of lower, 223
- Boys should be made strong, 295
- Brain, symptoms of water on the, 173
- Bran, for the purpose of softening water, 242
- Bran poultices, best way to make, 256
- Breakfast of a child, what should be the, 120
- Breakfast of a youth, in regard to the, 286
- Breathing exercise, the desirability of, 295
- Brimstone and treacle, the giving of, 225
- Brown and Polson’s Corn Flour, 39
- Bronchitis, the care and treatment of, 186
- Broth, the use of, for infants, 103
- Broth, the use of, for a quite young infant, 40
- Broth and soup, wholesomeness of, 288
- Brothers and sisters, association of, 302
- Bruises, immediate remedies for, 256
- Burns and scalds, which most dangerous, 261
- Burning, danger of, among females, 135
- Bullying and snubbing of a child, 146
- Butter, wholesomeness and advantage of, 120
- Calomel, the danger of a mother prescribing, 86
- Calomel, the ill effects of, 331
- Camphor makes teeth brittle, 314
- Caning and flogging of a boy, 298
- Caps, flannel, the necessity of, 29
- Carpets in nurseries, the effects of using, 150
- Carriage exercise, the advantages of, 293
- Carron oil in burns, value of, 263
- Castor oil, its effects as a healer, 87
- Cat, bites and scratches of a, 268
- Chafings, the best treatment of, 80
- Chairs, the use of straight-backed, 304
- Change of air, the effect of, 227
- Change of linen in sickness, 230
- Chapped hands and limbs of a child, 242
- Chapped lips, excellent application for, 243
- Chest, keeping warm the upper part of the, 283
- “Chicken-breasted” and narrow-breasted children, 207
- Chicken-pox, nature and symptoms of, 223
- Chilblains, the way to prevent and cure the, 241
- Child, when he should commence to dine with his parents, 133
- “Child-crowing,” the perilous disorder of, 179
- “Child-crowing,” the treatment of a paroxysm of, 181
- Children’s hour, the right method at, 142
- Children’s parties, the great follies of, 159
- Chimneys, on the stopping of, 150, 229
- Chiropodists, the great want of respectable, 338
- Chlorosis, causes, symptoms and cure of, 340, 341
- Chlorosis is rare in rural districts, 343
- “Choking,” what is to be done in a case of, 265
- Cisterns, the best kind of, 127
- Clothes, on airing an infant’s, 32
- Clothes, the ill effects of tight, 111
- Clothing, the proper, for children, 111
- Clothing, the best kind, for infants, 30
- Clothing, the proper kind, during winter, 32
- Clothing, the proper kind, for youths, 282
- Coffee as an aperient, the use of, 245, 286
- Coffee and tea, 286
- Coin, on the swallowing of a, 272
- Cold bed-room healthy, 167
- Cold, a feverish, the best course in case of, 255
- Cold, on child always catching, 228
- Cold feet, method to warm, 142
- Concluding remarks on infancy, 106
- Constipation, prevention and cure of, 331
- Consumption attacks the upper part of the lungs, 283
- Consumption, the age at which it usually appears, 321
- Consumption, the causes of, 323
- Consumption, the death-rate, 321
- Consumption, importance of early consulting a medical man in, 320
- Consumption, spitting of blood in, 320
- Consumption, the symptoms attending, 321
- Consumptive patient, the treatment of a, 324
- Convulsions of children, 61, 81
- Convulsions from hooping-cough, 82
- Cooked fruit for child, the wholesomeness of, 120
- Coroners’ inquests on infants, 75
- Corporal punishment at schools, 298
- Corns, their nature, cause and best remedy, 337, 338
- Costiveness in the young, the means to prevent, 86
- Costiveness, the best remedies for, 82
- Costiveness, the reason why so prevalent, 334
- Cough, the danger of stopping a, 68
- Cow, the importance of having the milk from ONE, 41, 45
- Cream and egg, the advantages of, 121
- Cream and water for a babe, 121
- Crinoline and the danger to ladies, 135
- Croquet for girls, the amusement of, 296
- Crossness in a sick child, proper treatment of, 232
- Croup, the times for and dangers of, 175
- Croup, the treatment of, 176
- Cry of an infant, the language in the, 103
- Cure, artificial and natural, means of, 239
- “Curious phenomenon” in scarlet fever, 197
- Cut finger, the best application for, 256
- Dancing and skipping, the benefits of, 295
- Danger of constantly giving physic, 106
- Delicate child, plan to strengthen a, 226
- Dentition, the period when begins, 58
- Dentition, the lancing of gums in, 60
- Dentition, the period of second, 169
- Dentition, symptoms and treatment of painful, 66
- Diarrhœa in infants, the symptoms of, 90
- Diarrhœa in infants, the treatment of, 92
- Diet of a child who has cut his teeth, 120
- Diet of children generally, 118
- Diet of a child raised on artificial food, 44
- Diet of a child turned from the natural food, 51
- Diet of infants, 33
- Diet, on a mother being particular in attending to, 126
- Diet of youth, breakfast, 286
- Dietary, an infant’s, 36
- Dinner for a child, 119
- Dinner for a youth, 287
- Diphtheria, symptoms, causes and treatment of, 188–193
- Dirty child, a, the mother’s disgrace, 77
- Diseased nature and strange eruptions, 250
- Diseases of children and the symptoms, 170
- Diseases of girls, and the causes and symptoms, 340
- Diseases of infants and symptoms, 77
- Diseases in children, causes of obscure, 244
- Diseases, the prevention of, 315
- Diseases produced by tight lacing, 284
- Diseases, symptoms of serious, 79
- Doctor, on early calling in the, 253
- Dog supposed to be mad, the bite of a, 266
- Doleful child, the sight of a, 139
- Drainage of the house and neighborhood, 136, 206
- Dress, female, health and fashion in, 285
- Dress of a child while asleep, 73
- Drinking fountains a great boon, 128
- Dropping a child, danger of injury in, 258
- Dry-raised children, the best food for, 45
- “Dusting material” for infants, old-fashioned, 23
- Dysentery, symptoms and treatment of, 93–97
- Ear, nature and treatment of discharges from the, 220
- Ear, removal of a pea or bead from the, 271
- Earache, best treatment of the, 219
- Earwig in the ear of a child, 272
- Early rising, benefit of, 167, 311
- Education of children, best plan of, 161
- Education in infant schools, 160
- Education, home, the best for girls, 301
- Education, modern, the best, 301
- Education for youth, plan of, 298
- Eggs for children, the use of, 126
- Enema apparatus an important requisite, 226
- Engravings and paintings should be hung in nurseries, 137
- Eruptions about the mouth, 249
- Excoriations, applications for, 24
- Excoriations, the best remedy for, 24
- Exercise in the open air, 69, 151, 290
- Exercise the best composing medicine, 290
- Exercise, importance of, for children, 151
- Exercise in wet weather, 153
- Exercise, on violently tossing infants for, 70
- Exercise, horse and pony, for boys and girls, 292
- Exercise, an infant himself taking, 69
- Exercise, the best, for youth, 291
- Fecal matter in pump water, 206
- Fainting, in case of a young lady, 329
- Fainting from unhealthy condition, 330
- Fainting from general debility, 330
- Fainting from a disordered stomach, 330
- Falling-off of hair, to prevent, 282
- Falls on the head, the best course in case of, 257
- Fashion, dangerous effects of strictly attending to, 285
- Fashion, the present, of dressing children, 117
- Fashionable desiderata for complexion, 342
- Favoritism both hurtful and wrong, 147
- Feeding of infants, proper time to begin the, 42
- Feeding of infants, proper intervals for the, 42
- Feet, remedy for smelling, 339
- Feet, remedy for sweating, 339
- Feet, remedy for tender, 339
- Female dress in ball-room, 285
- Fire, on a child playing with, 260
- Fire, danger of sitting with the back to, 136
- Fire, the use of, in night nursery, 166
- Fire, the manner of extinguishing, if clothes be on, 260
- Fire-guards, the use of, 135, 260
- Fire-proof, dresses can be made perfectly, 261
- Flannel night-gowns, the wearing of, 113
- Flannel shirts for a delicate child, 113
- Flannel waistcoats, nothing equal to, 282
- Fleas, best way to drive away, 235
- Flute, bugle and other wind instruments, 296
- Fly-pole as an exercise for the muscles, 297
- Fog, on sending child out in, 153
- Folly of giving physic after vaccination, 57
- Food, artificial, while using the natural, 42
- Food, care in preparing infants’, 40
- Food for infants artificially fed, 36, 44
- Food for infants naturally fed, 36
- Frightening a child should never be indulged in, 140
- Fruit, as an aperient, 222
- Garters impede the circulation, 114
- Gin or peppermint in infants’ food, 51
- Giving joy to a child, 143
- Glass, a child swallowing broken, 272
- Gluttony kills more than the sword, 290
- Glycerin soap, an excellent remedy, 242
- Goat’s milk as a substitute, 44
- Godfrey’s Cordial as a remedy, 88
- Godfrey’s Cordial, poisoning by, treatment in case of, 269
- Grazed skin, the best application for a, 269
- Great desideratum, 77
- Green dresses are poisonous, 137, 286
- Green paper-hangings for nurseries objectionable, 137
- “Gripings,” symptoms, causes and treatment of, 89
- “Gross superstition,” usual style of, 199
- Gums, the lancing of the, 60
- Gum-boil, cause and treatment of a, 336
- Gum-sticks, the best of, 62
- Gymnasium, the value of a, 295
- Hair, the best application for the, 282
- Hair, to perfume the, 282
- Hair, plan of making tidy the, 281
- Half-washed and half-starved child, the, 155
- Hand-swing, the, a capital exercise, 296
- Happiness to a child, importance of, 143
- Happy, how to make a child, 143
- Hards’ Farinaceous Food, 38
- Hardening of children’s constitutions, 113
- Hardening of infants, the, 71
- Hats for a child, the best kind of, 112
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, on American ladies, 342
- Head, if a child fall upon his, 257
- Heat, external application of, 254
- Hiccoughs of infants, causes of, 90
- Hints conducive to the well-doing of a child, 139
- Home of childhood—the nursery, 139
- Hooping-cough, brief history of, 210
- Hooping-cough an obstinate disease, 215
- Hooping-cough, the treatment of, 212
- Horse exercise for boys or girls, 292
- Horse and pony exercise, 292
- Hot water bag or bottle, the use of a, 254
- Household work for girls as a means of health, 305
- Hydrophobia, antidote for, 266
- Hysterics, when a lady is most prone to, 344, 346
- India-rubber hot water bottle, use of an, 254
- Infants and the use of aperients, 77
- Infants should be encouraged to use exertion, 69
- Infants, about the weight of, 74
- Infant schools, health in, 160
- Infant, wheezing of an, 77
- Ipecacuanha wine, preservation of, 179
- Ladies “affecting the saddle”, 296
- Laudanum, treatment in case of poisoning by, 269
- Law, physic and divinity, 306
- Leaden cisterns, using water from, 127
- Learning without health, 237
- Leech-bites, the way to restrain bleeding from, 105
- Lessons, confining a child to his, 158
- Lice on the head after illness, 234
- Light, best artificial, for nursery, 138
- Light, the importance of, to health, 138
- Lime in the eye, to remove, 264
- Lime to harden the bones, 248
- Lime-water and milk, the use of, 125
- Love of children, the results of, 144
- Lucifer matches, the poisonous effects of, 138, 260
- Luncheon for a child, the, 125
- Lungs, inflammation of the, 113, 181
- Lungs, inflammation of, precautions to prevent, 236
- Lungs, inflammation of, symptoms of, 181
- Lungs, inflammation of, treatment of, 182
- Lying lips of a child, the, 147
- Mad dog, the bite of a, 266
- Mad dog, a description of a, 267
- Magnesia to cool a child, 87
- Manner and proper time for turning a child to artificial food, 50, 51
- Many die under five years of age, 43
- Mattresses, horse-hair, best for a child, 164
- Meals should be varied, a child’s, 128
- Measles described, the symptoms of, 193
- Measles and scarlet fever, the, 196
- Measles, the treatment of the, 194
- Meat, daily, on giving a boy, 287
- Meat, raw, in long-standing disease, 227
- Meat, in exhaustive diseases, 227
- Meat, when a child should commence taking, 118
- Meddlesome treatment of wiseacres, 250
- Medical man, a mother’s treatment toward the, 250
- Medicine, the best way of administering, 228
- Medicine, on giving new-born infants, 78
- Medicine, on making palatable, 229
- Mercury, on the danger of parents giving, 85, 331
- Milk, on the importance of having it from ONE cow, 36, 45
- Milk, bad, very nasty, 123
- Milk for babe indispensable, 46
- Milk, or meat, or both, 124
- Milk, a plan to make a child take, 124
- Milk, the value of, for children, 121
- Milk, a way to prevent, turning sour, 125
- Milk-crust, a troublesome complaint, 249
- Mismanaged, children, through want of instruction, 18
- Modified small-pox and chicken-pox, 209
- Mother, fretting, injurious to infant, 50
- Mother, a foolish, course of, 75
- Mother, the, of many diseases, 324
- Mother should supervise the mixing of milk, 36
- Motions, to understand the, of children, 90
- Mumps, the best treatment of, 217
- Nature’s remedies the best, 106
- Nervous and unhappy young ladies, 340
- Nettle-rash, its symptoms and the best treatment, 97
- Night-terrors, best treatment of, 141
- Nose, removal of foreign substances from, 271
- Nose, bleeding from, means to restrain, 328
- Nurse, on the choice of a, 139
- Nurse, the acts of a lazy, 142
- Nurse, the value of a strong and active, 140
- Nurse, a young, not desirable, 140
- Nurse, the kind of, for the sick, 232
- Nursery-basin, the employment of a, 20
- Nursery a child’s own domain, 139, 157
- Nursery, selection, warming, ventilation, arrangements of, 133
- Nursery of a sick child, 229
- Nursery, on the light of a, 138
- Nursery, a, must be airy, 133
- Nursery, further observations in regard to a, 134
- Nursery, windows to be often opened in a, 138
- Opium, a case of poisoning by, 68
- Opium, the danger of administering, to infants, 88
- Opium, the treatment of poisoning by, 269
- Over-education among children, 161
- Over-feeding with artificial food, 87
- Paint-boxes dangerous as toys, 158
- Peevishness of a child, the plan to allay, 144
- Perambulators, the use of, 152
- Pies and puddings, the nature of, 119
- Pimples of the face, treatment of, 335
- Pin, on a child’s swallowing a, 272
- Play, a course of education in, 162
- Play and useful knowledge, 160
- Play-grounds for children, 160
- Pleasant words to a child, importance of, 146
- Poisoning, accidental, 269
- Poisoning a child with his breath, 165
- Poppy-syrup, injurious effects of, 88
- Pork an improper meat for children, 125
- Position of a sleeping child, 166
- Potatoes for children, the use of, 126
- Poultice, a celebrated white-bread, 255
- Powder, “dusting,” the best, 23
- Precocity of intellect, 315
- Precocious youths, the health of, 316
- Princess of Wales and her child, 24
- Professions and trades, choice of, 305
- Proper management of infants, 106
- Proper persons to wash an infant, 24
- Proper position of child in sleep, 239
- Prunes, the best way of stewing, 222
- Profession or trade, choice of, for delicate youth, 305
- Profession or trade, delicate youths should be brought up to, 306
- Puddings for children, the use of, 119
- Quack Medicines, the danger in, 88
- Quacking an infant, the habit of, 86
- Quicklime in the eye, 264
- Red-gum, the symptoms and treatment of, 98
- Regularity of habits among the young, 332, 334
- Respiration, products of, poisonous, 309
- Rest, the best time for a child to retire to, 165
- Revaccination, importance of, 54
- Revaccination every seven years, 54
- Rheumatic fever, flannel vest and drawers in, 283
- Ribs, bulging out of the, 319
- Rice, prepared as an infant’s food, 39
- Richardson, Dr., the ether spray of, 328
- Rickets, the nature and effects of, 245
- Rickets, the various degrees of, 246
- Rocking-chairs, and rockers to the cradle, 72
- Rocking infants to sleep, 72
- Rooms, ill effects of dark, 138
- Round shoulders, cause and treatment of, 238, 318
- Round-worm, nature and cure of, 243
- Running scall, description of and remedy for, 249
- Rupture through meddlesomeness, 27
- Rupture, nature and best treatment, 28, 29
- Rusks, boiled, as food, 38
- Sallowness, cause of, in young girls, 290
- Salt water and fresh water, 279
- Salt should be added to an infant’s food, 42
- Salt, bag of hot, use of a, 254
- Salt necessary to human life, 245
- Salt meats for children, 125
- Salt and water ablutions for a delicate child, 110
- Salt and water for teeth and gums, 313
- Scalds and burns, which most dangerous, 261
- Scalds of mouth and throat, 261
- Scarlatina, the nature of, 190
- Scarlet fever, the symptoms of, 196
- Scarlet fever, the contagion of, 205
- Scarlet fever, the danger of giving aperients in, 196
- Scarlet fever, the dropsy of, 197, 205
- Scarlet fever, management of child after, 205
- Scarlet fever and measles, the importance of distinguishing between, 197
- Scarlet fever, the principal danger in, 197
- Scarlet fever, the purification of the house after, 206
- Scarlet fever, the treatment of, 198
- Schools, observations upon female boarding, 301
- Schools, observations upon public, 300
- Screaming in sleep, children, 216
- Scrofula, how to ward off, 316
- Scrofula, the prevention of, 316
- Scurfy head, a remedy for, 109
- Sea-bathing and fresh-water bathing, 279
- Sea-bathing for a young child, 228
- Secrets, talking, before a child, 163
- Selection of females for nourishing children, 46
- Senna as an aperient, 221
- Shivering fit, importance of attending to a, 215
- Shivering fit, treatment of a, 216
- Shoes, plan to water-proof, 283
- Shoes preferable to boots, 115
- Shoes and stockings for children and youths, 114, 283
- Shoes, the ill effects of tight, 114
- “Shortening” an infant, 33
- Shoulder-blades “growing out”, 238
- Sick child, the nursing of a, 229
- Sick child not to be stuffed with food, 232
- Sick-room, management of the, 229
- Sickness of infants, injurious effects of, 99
- Singed rag for wrapping, 26
- Singing and reading aloud, 298
- Singing beneficial to a child, 164
- Single-stick, the game of, 294
- Sitting with the back to fire, 135
- Sitz bath both useful and valuable, 225
- Skating for boys and girls, 297
- Skin, grazed, application for, 269
- Sleeping-rooms, importance of well ventilating, 309
- Sleep, the, of children, 164
- Sleep, the, of infants, 71
- Sleep in middle of day beneficial, 164
- Sleep, much, necessary for infants, 74
- Sleep, temperature of infants’ bed-room during, 71
- Sleep, right time of putting a child to, 165
- Sleep, rocking infants to, 72
- Sleep of youth, and early rising, 311
- Slight attack not to be interfered with, 91
- Slippers, the best for sick-room, 233
- Small-pox, the ravages of, 53
- Small-pox, a pest and disgrace, 54
- Small-pox, when modified, 207
- Small-pox, when in the neighborhood, 55
- Small-pox, to prevent pitting of, 240
- Smothering of infants, the cause of, 75
- Socks and stockings for a child, 115
- Soda, ill effects of washing clothes with, 24
- Sounds, joyful, for every ear, 144
- Soups and broths, 287
- Speak gently to a child, 145
- Spencer, a knitted worsted, 31
- Spine, in case of injury to the, 258
- Spine, lateral curvature of the, 319
- Spines, causes of distorted, 164, 319
- Spines twisted from rapid growing, 238
- Spirits, deadly effects of, to the young, 288
- Spitting of blood, 320, 322
- Spitting of blood, precautions against, 324
- Spurious croup sometimes mistaken for the genuine, 179
- Stammering, cause of, 148
- Stammering, cure of, 149
- Stays, the ill effects of, 284
- Stillness of the sick-room, 233
- Sting of the bee or wasp, 268
- Stir-about and milk, well-boiled oatmeal, 121
- Stockings and shoes, 114, 283
- Stooping in a girl, evil effects of, 318
- Stopping of chimneys, 150, 229
- Stuffing a sick child with food, 232
- “Stuffing of the nose” of infants, 98
- “Sty,” treatment of the, 220
- Suet-pudding, the nature of, 119
- Sugar for infants, 42, 52
- Sugar confectionery for infants, 131
- Sugar, raw, as an aperient, 52
- Sunstroke, prevention of, 112
- Sunday, children should not regard as a day of gloom, 159
- Supper for a child and for a youth, 128, 289
- Surfeit water and saffron tea, 194
- Sweetmeats colored with poisonous pigments, 131
- Swimming, on boys and girls, 278
- Symptoms of serious diseases, 170
- Tape-worm, the effect on children of, 244
- Taste for things refined and beautiful, 138
- Tea, on giving a child, 131
- Tea, green, the ill effects of, 131, 289
- Teeth, attention to, importance of, 313
- Teeth, child should not have meat until he has cut several, 118
- Teeth, the diet of a child who has cut all his, 118
- Teeth and gums, to keep in a healthy state the, 313
- Teeth, right way of brushing the, 314
- Teeth, appearance and number of first set of, 59
- Teeth, appearance and number of second set of, 169
- Teeth, the second crop of, 169
- Teething, the time at which children begin, 58
- Teething, eruptions from, 68
- Teething the frequent cause of sickness, 99
- Teething, a fruitful source of disease, 64
- Teething, plan to be adopted during, 67
- Teething, restlessness from, 253
- Teething, second, importance of care, 170
- Teething, symptoms and treatment of painful, 66
- Teething, in town and country, 67
- Temperature and ventilation of a nursery, 133
- Temperature of a warm bath, 254
- Thread or maw-worm, and its causes, 213
- Throats, sore, precautions to prevent, 325
- Thrush, cause, symptoms, prevention and cure of, 100
- Thumb, the best gum-stick in the world, 62
- Tight bands, belts and hats, 111
- Tight lacing, the ill effects of, 284
- Times for feeding an infant, 35
- Tobacco smoking for boys, 327
- Tobacco smoking, cases illustrating the danger of, 327
- Toe-nails, the right way of cutting, 116
- Tongue-tied, to ascertain if an infant be, 34
- “Tooth-cough,” should anything be given in, 67
- Tooth-powder, an excellent, 313
- Top crust of bread as infant’s food, 38
- Tous-les-mois, 37
- Toys, children’s, 158
- Toys painted with arsenic, 137, 158
- Trade or profession for a delicate youth, 308
- Treatment of the delicate, 226
- Treatment of some urgent serious diseases, 79, 171
- Truth, the love of, 147
- Tub, commencement of washing an infant in a, 20
- Tumbling and rolling of a child, 154
- Vaccination, the advantages of, 53
- Veal for a child, the objection to, 126
- Vegetables for a child, 126
- Ventilation, and on stopping of chimneys, 150, 230
- Ventilation and sleep, 308
- Ventilation of a nursery, 134
- Violet powder, to make, 23
- Walking, on the early, of infants, 151
- Walking exercise, value of, 291
- Walking in his sleep, a child, 168
- Warm baths for children, 253
- Warm external applications, 254
- Warts, the best remedy to destroy, 339
- Washing of a child, remarks upon the, 108
- Washing of an infant, remarks upon the, 19
- Washing a new-born infant’s head with brandy, 21
- Washing a nursery floor, 136
- Wasp, the sting of a, 268
- Water, on the importance of good, 127
- Water on the brain, 173
- Water, cold and warm, for ablution, 107
- Weather, on a child almost living in the air in fine, 153
- Weather, on sending the young out in wet, 153
- Wet flannel application, 255
- White lily leaf for bruises, 257
- Whom, and how, to nurse the young, 44
- Whom to select as a nurse for feeble children, 47
- Windows of a nursery should be large, 138
- Windpipe, foreign substance in the, 273
- Wine for children and youths, 130, 288
- Winter clothing, the time to leave off, 116
- Woolen garments, the use of, 113, 282