How to relieve teething syndrome in babies

Licorice-flavored Morphine for Babies: Winchell's Teething Syrup.

The Orcutt-Killick Lithographing Company created this advertising card image (above) for another Chicago firm, Emmert Proprietary Company (EPC), the makers of Winchell’s Teething Syrup. Now imagine yourself back in the 1890s, startled awake in the middle of the night by your inconsolably crying infant. Bespectacled and wearing your collared nightshirt, stockings, and slippers, you reach for thi...

To understand how babies breathe...

How Babies Learn to Find Words

A recent study by Sa ran and colleagues (1996) has demonstrated that young infants have a striking ability to rapidly learn the statistical relationships present in sequences of syllables. Eight-month-olds were able to distinguish three-syllable \words" that they had heard previously in a stream of syllables from those that they had not. Since the only evidence available in the input stream is ...

How babies think.

Ju ly 2010 T hirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral. They believed children were locked in the concrete here and now—unable to understand cause and effect, imagine the experiences of other people, or appreciate the difference between reality and fantasy. People still often think of children...

Late Teething in India

cut their teeth at a later age than that given in books. Out of 100 infants of varying ages, from 8 months to 2 years, 30, nearly one-third, had cut no teeth ; and out of 14 infants, S months' old, more than half, 8, had not commenced teething ; out of 27 infants one year old, 7 had not cut any tooth, 7 had cut 4, 6 had cut 6 teeth, and only one had 9. Though the statistics speak comparatively ...