An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants. To which are added rules to be observed in the nursing of children: with a particular view to those who are brought up by hand ... / [George Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, George, 1719-1789.
Date:
MDCCLXVII
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Credit: An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants. To which are added rules to be observed in the nursing of children: with a particular view to those who are brought up by hand ... / [George Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    weaning will be attended with the inconveniencies juft now men¬ tioned. Every mother whofe health and ftrength will permit, and who has good nipples, ought, for her own fake, to fuckle her infant during the fir ft few weeks, in order to pre¬ vent the milk-fever, inflammations and fuppurations of thebreafts; the firft of which is dangerous, and the two laft very painful, tedious and difagreeable. For after the ladleal tubes have been repeatedly emptied by fucking, the milk may be dried up with more eafe and fafety. Be- fides, the fuckling may agree bet¬ ter