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cutting the navel-string too soon; which should always be left 

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

 tion in the cord ceases. As otherwise 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 same 

 time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw it- 

 self from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with 

 so much safety and certainty. The folly of giving rue or rhu- 

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

 gruel instead of milk, is spoken of in Class I. 1.2. 5. and II. 1. 

 2. 16. 



Many ladies become diseased by an unnatural refusal of giving 

 suck to their child, which ought to relieve their breasts of the 

 load of milk, and give consolation to their minds by the storge 

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

 culty in nursing their children from their not having nipples to 

 their breasts; which have been often inflamed and destroyed in 

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

 hard edge of stiff stays rubbing against them, and sometimes, I 

 believe, by the small-pox. 



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

 lie thinks highly interesting to humanity; which is, that tho 

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

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

 rally saved by giving them such an inclined position, that the 

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

 to be dead or still-born, he says, that twelve recovered by these 

 simple means. As the trachea may not have acquired due sensi- 

 bility before delivery, in some feeble or premature births, this 

 circumstance may possibly arise, though it seldom occurs even in 

 drowned people. Medical Review, July, 1799. 



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