An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. In a letter to one of the governors of the Foundling Hospital / Published by order of the general committee for transacting the affairs of the said hospital. By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan].

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797
Date:
1752
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Credit: An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. In a letter to one of the governors of the Foundling Hospital / Published by order of the general committee for transacting the affairs of the said hospital. By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3* ) the Children, entrufted to their Care, fliould be treated fomewhat differently from thofe who are nurfed in a more natural Way, and fuck their own Mothers. I make no doubt, but great Care is taken, that the Nurfes, re¬ commended to the Hofpital, be clean and healthy Women. But this is not enough, the Preference ffould be given to the middle- aged ; becaufe they will have more Milk than the very young, and more and better than the old. This is a material Confideration, as I fuppofe, they have each her own Child to fuckle befides. Thofe between twenty and thirty are certainly of the beft Age. But what I think of the utmoft Confequence is, that great Regard fhould be had to the Time of their Lying-in, and thofe procured, if pof- fible, who have not been brought to bed above two or three Months. The Reafon of this is, that Nature intending a Child ftiould fuck about a Twelvemonth, the Milk feldom con¬ tinues good much longer. About that Time, Women in general, tho’ they give Suck, are apt to breed again; fome indeed, that are very fanguine, will breed fooner^ thefe, not- withftanding their Milk, are apt to be trou¬ bled with the Catame7iia^ which difturb it greatly; and therefore are not fo proper to be made Nurfes of. But, whether they breed or not, it is my Opinion, that after a Year's Time, or thereabouts, however it may agree with a Child that has fucked it from the firft, their