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Deficiency of milk might survive even at a very early period afterward deliverance, and yet be dispatched. This, however, isn’t to be achieved by the substance too often resorted to; for it’s the custom with many, 2 or 3 weeks later their confinement, whenever the issue of nutrition for the infant is meager, to partake mostly of malt for its growth. Sooner or later this would be found harmful to the constitution of the mother: but however, then, is this deficiency to be avoided? Allow the nurse keep but in healthiness, and this detail acquired, the milk, both as to measure and quality, will be as sufficient, nutritious, and good, as could be developed by the individual.
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The rules which had better to lead a parent in clothing her baby during infancy are as follows:

The material and amount of the clothes better such as to keep an adequate proportionality of warmness to the body, determined consequently by the temper of the year, and the fragility or enduringness of the infant’s establishment.
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The breathing of a pure air amazes entirely times, and below whole conditions, critical to the wellness of the babies. The greenhouse therefore should be expectant, comfortably aerated, in an advanced component of the house, and in order located as to accommodate a absolve provision both of aerate and brightness. For the equal understandings, the room in which the babies rests should be prominent, and the air often renewed; for nothing is so prejudicious to its wellness as sleeping in an unclean and ignited atmospheric state.
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