A Guide to Nursing Mothers

some simple directions for their treatment, the whole interpersed with occasional scraps of poetry. " Regular washing of the body is," we are told "indispensable for nursing mothers in order to keep the pores of the skin perfectly clean." "Children should be strictly prohibited from using wine, beer or brandy, which is productive of serious derangement. There is an instance where the bowels of seven children in a family were infested with worms by the use of liquors. They were all cured by substituting water for spirits." " It is not prudent to employ nurses who are labouring under any natural defect, such as one who squints, or one who has lost an eye, or who is lame