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The Physical Training of Children

Chapter 41: INDEX.
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A practical guide for caregivers outlining the physical upbringing of children from birth through adolescence, emphasizing preventive and practical measures for health. It reviews newborn care, cleanliness, navel management, clothing, feeding and vaccination, teething, sleep, bowel and bladder care, exercise and suitable amusements, nursery arrangements, and the changing needs of boyhood and girlhood. The material stresses sensible diet, protection from cold, regular exercise, and early instruction to avert common ailments, and presents remedies, warm baths and treatments for accidents. Organized as questions and answers, it aims to equip parents and nurses with clear, actionable advice for daily management and long-term prevention.

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