The parent's guide. A treatise on the method of rearing children from their earliest infancy ... To which are attached a few simple regulations for the homoeopathic treatment of some of the more common affections incidental to childhood / [Joseph Laurie].

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The parent's guide. A treatise on the method of rearing children from their earliest infancy ... To which are attached a few simple regulations for the homoeopathic treatment of some of the more common affections incidental to childhood / [Joseph Laurie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Preliminary Remarks Part I. Of the Nursing of Infants 5 Treatment of Children at the Birth .... 8 Precautions to he taken by the Mother . . .13 Tight lacing injurious to the Nursing Breast ,. . 18 Of Wet Nurses. ....... 20 Of Artificial Feeding and Weaning ..... 26 Of Weaning ......... 35 Of the General Treatment of Children from the Period of Weaning to that of Education, properly so called . . 38 Of Rest . . . ib. Of Cleanliness ........ 42 Of Air and Exercise . . . . . . .46 Occupation ........ 50 Of Diet 55 Manners at Table 61 Of Clothing ........ 65 Part. II.— Of Physical Education, as tending to Mental and Moral Development. Of Spoilt Children ...... . . 79 Over-severity—Alienated Children 81 The Duties, and their Inculcation ..... 88 The Six Social Duties ....... 90 Duty towards the Parent ...... 92 Of Obedience . . .... .93 Of Love ........ 94 Honour and Reverence ..... 96