Nursery Inspection in Massachusetts

Psychology in the Nursery School

This book has been written by an ardent Freudian. The word "Psychoanalytical" is scattered over every page. Some very ordinary actions of the nursery school age are distorted by this obsession, especially in the chapter on "Erotically Tinged Friendships." To give one example. A girl is cutting off a boy's hair with scissors. "The passive behaviour of the boy showed he was sacrificing his mascul...

Rowlandson's Death in the Nursery.

"At a Christening at Beddington Surrey," said the Gentleman's Magazine of Sunday 4 December 1748, "the nurse was so intoxicated, that after she had undress'd the child, instead of laying it in the cradle, she put it behind a large fire, which burnt it to death in a few minutes.-She was examined before a Magistrate, and said she was quite stupid and senseless, so that she took the child for a lo...

Nursery Practices

Candida colonization in the nursery.

There is a wide range of variability in the reported frequencies of fungal colonization in NICUs due to several factors. Inconsistencies in surveillance culture policies make it difficult to compare the incidence rates of different settings and institutions: as a result, NICUs performing weekly (or semiweekly) cultures for each patient will claim higher incidence rates of colonization than thos...

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