A Mother's Guide To Child's Health A Guide To Child's Health & Care for The Young Inexperienced Mother

Is motherhood ruining your life? Do you feel like it's the end of the world every time your child gets sick? 

For many young, inexperienced mothers the sight of  their sick and suffering children is an almost unbearable experience. And all too often, panic seizes them whenever their children start feeling unwell.

This should not be the case if you know about the nature of a child's physiology. 

From birth,  the child's body undergoes adaptations to the environment that is made for adults, hence the frequent bouts of infections and diseases.

To be sure, these diseases that afflict your child happen to make your child a very healthy adult by building immunity.

What is important is what you need to know about childhood diseases, what to do to prevent or treat sickness and how to nurture and nurse your child back to good health.

The Mother's Guide to Child's Health is a perfect parent's companion that details the most common childhood diseases and complaints, prescribes what to do when your child gets sick as well as how to properly care for your child to become healthy.

Composed of over 56,000 words and 120 pages The Mother's Guide to Child's Health is now available in downloadable PDF ebook format.

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Warning: The Mother's Guide to Child's Health should in no way become a substitute for a pediatrician. When your child gets sick always call your doctor. 

The Mother's Guide to Child's Health is simply a doctor's assistant that would educate you about childhood diseases, what to do when your child gets sick and how to prevent diseases from occurring.

                     CONTENTS

Chapter I.

ON THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.

Sect. - Page

I. On the Dietetics of Infancy - 2

1. Maternal Nursing - 3

Plan of Suckling - 3
Deficiency of Milk - 11
The injurious Effects to Mother and Infant of undue and protracted
Suckling - 15
Mothers who ought never to suckle - 20

2. Wet-nurse Suckling - 27

Choice of a Wet-nurse - 28
Diet and Regimen of a Wet-nurse - 31

3. Artificial Feeding, (bringing up by hand) - 34

The Kind of artificial Food before the sixth Month - 35
The Kind of artificial Food after the sixth Month to the completion of
first Dentition - 44
The Kind of artificial Food most suitable under the different
Complaints to which Infants are liable - 48

II. Weaning - 51

The Time when - 51
The Mode - 52
The drying up of the Mother’s Milk - 54

III. On the Dietetics of Childhood - 54

General Directions, and of animal Food - 55
Sugar - 60
Salt - 61
Fruits - 62
Water - 63
Wine, Beer, and Spirits - 63

IV. Sleep - 66

During Infancy - 66
During Childhood - 69

V. Bathing and Cleanliness - 72

During Infancy - 72
During Childhood - 75

VI. Clothing - 78

During Infancy - 78
During Childhood - 81

VII. Air and Exercise - 83

In Infancy - 83
In Childhood - 89

Chap. II.

ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF CERTAIN REMEDIES.

I. Aperient Medicine - 97

Castor Oil - 99
Manna - 101
Magnesia and Rhubarb - 102
The Lavement - 105
The Aperient Liniment - 107

II. Calomel - 107

III. Opiates - 110

IV. Leeching - 113

V. Blisters and Poultices - 114

VI. Baths - 117

The Cold-water Plunge Bath - 118
Sea Bathing - 120
The Shower Bath - 123
Ablution, or Sponging - 125
The Warm Bath - 188

Chap. III.

ON TEETHING, AND HINTS UPON THE PERMANENT TEETH.
I. On Teething. - 134

The Manner in which the temporary or milk Teeth appear - 134
The Management of the Infant when Teething is without difficulty - 136
The Management of the Infant in difficult Teething - 139

II. Hints on the permanent or adult Teeth - 148

The Manner in which they appear - 248
Their Value and Importance - 152
Their Management and Preservation - 154


Chap. IV.

HINTS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OP DISEASE IN THE CHILD BY THE MOTHER.

I. Signs of Health - 163
II. Signs of Disease - 164

Of the Countenance - 165
Of the Gestures - 169
Of the Sleep - 171
Of the Stools - 172
Of the Breathing and Cough - 175

III. Other Circumstances which will assist in the early Detection of
Disease - 178
The Influence of the Seasons in producing particular Forms of Disorder
· 178

The Influence of an hereditary Predisposition to certain Diseases - 179


Chap. V.
ON WHAT CONSTITUTES THE MATERNAL MANAGEMENT OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

I. Accidents and Diseases which may occur to the Infant at Birth, or soon after - 187

1. Still-born - 187
2. Injuries received during Birth - 193
3. Retention of Urine - 194
4. Swelling of the Breasts - 195
5. Inflammation of the Eyes - 196
6. Hare-lip - 199
7. Bleeding from the Navel-string - 201
8. Ulceration or imperfect Healing of the Navel - 20l
9. Bleeding from the Navel - 203
10. Jaundice - 204
11. Tongue-tied - 205
12. Moles and Marks on the Skin, etc. - 206

II. Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels; viz., Indigestion -
Flatulence - Vomiting - Griping and Looseness - 208

1. In the Infant at the Breast - 21O
2. At the period of Weaning - 217
3. In the child brought up by Hand - 221

Maternal Treatment - 222

III. Costiveness - 229
In Infancy - 229
In Childhood - 231

IV. Worms - 234

Not so frequent as popularly supposed; an error productive of mischief
· 234

How produced and how best prevented - 237

V. Scarlet Fever - 239

Mild Form - 239
With Sore Throat - 242
Scarlet Fever compared with Measles - 245
Maternal Management - 246

VI. Measles - 253

Description - 253
Compared with Scarlet Fever and Small Pox - 255
Maternal Management - 256

VII. Small-Pox - 262

Natural Small-Pox - 263
Small-Pox in the Vaccinated - 266
Maternal Management - 268
VIII. Hooping Cough - 275

Description - 276
Maternal Management - 279

IX. Croup - 286
Signs of its Approach - 286
Maternal Management - 289
Its prevention - 289

X. Water in the Head - 291

Its Prevention - 292
Maternal Management - 298

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