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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    think that the mother of the child (strong, healthy, and possessing the comforts of life) is forced to give her child to another no stronger or in any respect better adapted for the purpose, except that this substitute must conform to what is best adapted for the requirements of the child, without any regard to delicacies or luxuries of any sort. Some mothers will persist in nursing while really unfit; others will not nurse although able to do 39, simply for the reasons just mentioned. The circumstances which should prevent a mother Reasons for mother not from nursing her child are : t'o'nurse.^ I. When a mother is healthy and suitable in all respects, but incapacitated by sudden illness, accident, or death. II. When a mother has any constitutional delicacy whereby either herself or her infant might suffer directly or indirectly by nursing. With regard to the first group, it is rarer than the Selection of wet-nurse. other, but perhaps easier to decide on the nature of the substitute. The universal rule in this case is to get a duplicate of the mother as nearly as possible. In the second group, from the very nature of the case, it is our object to reverse this, and get one as