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cutting the navel-firing too foon ; which fhould always be left 

 till the child has not only repeatedly breathed, but till all pulfa- 

 tion. in the cord ceafes. As otherwife the child is much weaker 

 than it ought to be ; a part of the blood being left in the pla- 

 centa, which ought to have been in the child ; and at the fame 

 time the placenta does not fo naturally collapfe, and withdraw it- 

 felf from the fides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with 

 fo much fafety and certainty. The folly of giving rue or rhu- 

 barb to new-born children, and the danger of feeding them with 

 gruel inltead of milk, is fpoken of in Ciafs I. 1. 2. 5. and II. r. 

 2, 16. 



Many ladies become difeafed by an unnatural refufal of giving 

 fuck to their child, which ought to relieve their breads of the 

 load of milk, and give confolation to their minds by the ftorge 

 or love to their infant. Many ladies indeed experience a diffi- 

 culty in rrurflng their children from their not having nipples to 

 their breafts ; which have been often inflamed and deftroyed in 

 their early years, even in their infancy, as I have feen, by the 

 hard edge of ftiff ft ays rubbing againfl them, and fometimes, I 

 believe, by the fmal!-pox. 



M.Herholdt, of Copenhagen, has announced a difcovery which 

 he thinks highly interefting to humanity ; which is, that the 

 apparent death of new-born infants arifes from the trachea, or 

 wind-pipe, being filled with water ; and that they may be gen- 

 erally faved by giving them fuch an inclined pofition, that the 

 water may run out. Of thirteen children, which were fuppofed 

 to be dead or ftiil-born, he fays, that twelve recovered by thefe 

 fimple means. As the trachea may not have acquired due fen- 

 Jibility before delivery, in fome feeble or premature births, this 

 circumftance may poffibly arife, though it feldom occurs even in 

 drowned people. Medical Review, July, 1799. 



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