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THIS is one of the many manuals written for the guidance of young mothers. The writer is an American doctor, but suitable to every mother are the clear and practical directions on the management of herself and her infant. The earlier chapters are concerned with heredity and the conditions favourable for the unborn child. The practical advice is valuable, but it is misleading that the authors opinions on questions of heredity are stated as generally acknowledged facts. The chapters on the care of the infant are suggestive and helpful, and the importance of early training in good habits beginning during the first month of life is insisted upon duly and wisely; but the following advice is extraordinary and not to be recommended: “Take a good-sized raisin, cut open, taking out the seeds, put it on the umbilicus.” A chapter containing a classification of the diatheses of infants (scrofulous, tuberculous types, &c.) seems out of place in a manual of this description. At the end of the book there is a short and emphatic summary of what js and what is not to be done in the nursery; but among the “nursery don'ts” we notice the omission of a warning against a practice too common, at any rate, in this country, namely, the use of so-called baby-soothers.
Mother, Baby and Nursery.
By Gènevieve Tucker Pp. xvi + 193. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.) Price 1s.
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Mother, Baby and Nursery . Nature 63, 418 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063418b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/063418b0