The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro.

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - —■ — ■ ■ —————^ mother and child if milk is supplied from both breasts. The child generally offers little or no resistance to What nurse has to attend fastening on the breast, but a little perseverance will'° cfct over it when it does occur. Sometimes the mothers are as bad as the infants, for they do not know how to hold the babe in a convenient way for the purpose. The nurse should at once ascertain how the child is to be brought up, and, if at the breast, then she ought to be careful not to use too much freedom with the large artificial nipple of the feeding bottle. This is worthy of notice, for it is thought that nurses prefer to bring up the infant by the hand, as it is called. They ought to remember that it is less trouble for tlie child to catch the large nipple of the bottle than, perhaps, the ill-formed nipple of the mother's breast. All these things, trifling though they appear to be, cause much anxiety to the mother about her child; and it is well for the nurse to avoid such as much as possible. When the mother is not to nurse her babe, the doctor will use some means to prevent the secretion of milk, and, of course, hardness and such ■ like, from occurring. s