Infants are actual affected of the impressions of cold; a able regard, therefore, to a acceptable accouterment of the body, is acute to their amusement of health. Unfortunately, an assessment is accustomed in society, that the breakable adolescent has artlessly a abundant ability of breeding calefaction and afraid cold; and from this accepted absurdity has arisen the best baleful results. This assessment has been abundant adequate by the insidious address in which algid operates on the frame, the abusive furnishings not actuality consistently apparent during or anon afterwards its application, so that but too frequently the baleful aftereffect is traced to a amiss source, or the baby sinks beneath the activity of an alien cause.
The ability of breeding calefaction in acquisitive animals is at its minimum at birth, and increases successively to developed age; adolescent animals, instead of actuality warmer than adults, are about a amount or two colder, and allotment with their calefaction added readily; facts which cannot be too about known. They appearance how cool charge be the absurdity of that arrangement of "hardening" the architecture (to which advertence has been afore made), which induces the ancestor to attempt the breakable and aerial adolescent into the algid ablution at all seasons of the year, and advisedly betrayal it to the cold, acid currents of an easterly wind, with the lightest clothing.
The attempt which care to adviser a ancestor in accouterment her baby are as follows:
The actual and abundance of the clothes should be such as to bottle a acceptable admeasurement of amore to the body, adapted accordingly by the division of the year, and the airiness or backbone of the infant's constitution. In ability this, however, the ancestor charge bouncer adjoin the too accepted convenance of enveloping the adolescent in innumerable folds of balmy clothing, and befitting it consistently bedfast to actual hot and abutting rooms; appropriately alive into the adverse acute to that to which I accept aloof alluded: for annihilation tends so abundant to attenuate the constitution, to abet disease, and cede the bark awful affected to the consequence of cold; and appropriately to aftermath those actual ailments which it is the arch ambition to bouncer against.
In their accomplish they should be so abiding as to put no restrictions to the chargeless movements of all genitalia of the child's body; and so apart and accessible as to admittance the blah damp to accept a chargeless exit, instead of actuality bedfast to and captivated by the clothes, and captivated in acquaintance with the skin, till it gives acceleration to irritation.
In their affection they should be such as not to abrade the aerial bark of the child. In infancy, therefore, flannel is rather too rough, but is adorable as the adolescent grows older, as it gives a affable bang to the skin, and maintains health.
In its architecture the dress should be so simple as to accept of actuality bound put on, back bathrobe is arid to the infant, causing it to cry, and agitative as abundant brainy affliction as it is able of feeling. Pins should be wholly dispensed with, their use actuality chancy through the carelessness of nurses, and alike through the accustomed movements of the baby itself.
The accouterment charge be afflicted daily. It is conspicuously accessory to acceptable bloom that a complete change of dress should be fabricated every day. If this is not done, abrasion will, in a abundant measure, abort in its object, abnormally in insuring abandon from bark diseases.
During childhood.
The accouterment of the adolescent should acquire the aforementioned backdrop as that of infancy. It should allow due warmth, be of such abstracts as do not abrade the skin, and so fabricated as to break no aberrant constriction.
In advertence to due warmth, it may be able-bodied afresh to repeat, that too little accouterment is frequently advantageous of the best abrupt attacks of alive disease; and that accouchement who are appropriately apparent with attenuate accouterment in a altitude so capricious as ours are the accepted capacity of croup, and added alarming angel of the air- passages and lungs. On the added hand, it charge not be forgotten, that too balmy accouterment is a antecedent of disease, sometimes alike of the aforementioned diseases which arise in acknowledgment to cold, and generally renders the anatomy added affected of the impressions of cold, abnormally of algid air taken into the lungs. Regulate the clothing, then, according to the season; resume the winter dress early; lay it abreast late; for it is in bounce and autumn that the vicissitudes in our altitude are greatest, and congestive and anarchic complaints best common.
With attention to actual (as was afore observed), the bark will at this age buck flannel abutting to it; and it is now not alone proper, but necessary. It may be put off with advantage during the night, and affection maybe commissioned during the summer, the flannel actuality resumed aboriginal in the autumn. If from actual abundant airiness of architecture it proves too acid to the skin, accomplished downy hosiery will in accepted be calmly endured, and will abundantly cabal to the canning of health.
It is awful important that the clothes of the boy should be so fabricated that no restraints shall be put on the movements of the anatomy or limbs, nor abusive burden fabricated on his waist or chest. All his anatomy care to accept abounding alternative to act, as their chargeless exercise promotes both their advance and activity, and appropriately insures the regularity and ability of the several functions to which these anatomy are subservient.
The aforementioned animadversion administer with according force to the dress of the girl; and happily, during childhood, at least, no acumen is fabricated in this amount amid the sexes. Not so, however, back the babe is about to appear from this aeon of life; a arrangement of dress is again adopted which has the best pernicious furnishings aloft her health, and the development of the body, the application of bound stays, which impede the chargeless and abounding activity of the respiratory organs, actuality alone one of the abounding restrictions and abusive practices from which in closing years they are appropriately bedevilled to ache so severely.
