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8 TREATMENT OF INFANTS.
nistered, which practice is continued daily until
the child is three or four years old.
The very little clothing on infants in India
would of itself teach the propriety of keeping
them in a reclining position, as the mere natural
strength of the poor baby has nothing to sup-
port it by the aid of bandages or clothing.
The nurse receives the baby on a thin pillow
of calico quilted together, called gooderie; it
is changed as often as required, and is the
only method as yet introduced amongst the
Natives to secure cleanliness and comfort to
their infants. In the cold season, when the
thermometer may range from forty-five to fifty,
the method of inducing warmth is by means
of cotton or wadded quilts; flannel, as I have
said before, they know not the use of. The
children, however, thrive without any of those
things we deem essential to the comfort of
infancy, and the mamma is satisfied with the
original customs, which, it may be supposed, are
(without a single innovation) unchanged since
the period of Abraham, their boasted forefather.
On the fortieth day after the infant's birth,
nistered, which practice is continued daily until
the child is three or four years old.
The very little clothing on infants in India
would of itself teach the propriety of keeping
them in a reclining position, as the mere natural
strength of the poor baby has nothing to sup-
port it by the aid of bandages or clothing.
The nurse receives the baby on a thin pillow
of calico quilted together, called gooderie; it
is changed as often as required, and is the
only method as yet introduced amongst the
Natives to secure cleanliness and comfort to
their infants. In the cold season, when the
thermometer may range from forty-five to fifty,
the method of inducing warmth is by means
of cotton or wadded quilts; flannel, as I have
said before, they know not the use of. The
children, however, thrive without any of those
things we deem essential to the comfort of
infancy, and the mamma is satisfied with the
original customs, which, it may be supposed, are
(without a single innovation) unchanged since
the period of Abraham, their boasted forefather.
On the fortieth day after the infant's birth,