380 OF INFANCY. 



the bile and pancreatic juice with the food, takes 

 place in the ftomach and inteftines. Thus, 

 ^though the bile and pancreatic juice are fecreted 

 in the foetus, thefe liquors remain in their refer- 

 voirs, and pafs not into the inteftines ; becaufe, 

 like the ftomach, thefe refervoirs have yet no 

 motion or a£lion fufticient to make them empty 

 their contents into the receptacles of the food. 



Before the child is allowed to fuck, we allow 

 it time to difcharge the flime and meconium in 

 its ftomach and bowels. As thefe fubftances 

 might four the milk, and produce bad effeds, 

 we firft give the child a Httle wine and fugar, in 

 order to fortify its ftomach, and to promote fuch 

 evacuations as are neceflary to prepare it for re- 

 ceiving and digefting its food. Ten or twelve 

 hours, therefore, ought to elapfe, before the 

 child be allowed to fuck for the firft time. 



The infant has hardly efcaped from the womb 

 of its mother, and enjoyed the liberty of ftretch- 

 ing its limbs, when it is again condemned to a 

 more cruel and unnatural bondage. The head 

 of the little innocent is fixed ; its leggs are fetter- 

 ed ; its arms are bound down to its fides ; and 

 it is laced with bandages fo ftrait, that it can- 

 notmove a fingle joint. It is a forunate cir- 

 cumftance, when the fwaddings are not drawn 

 fo tight as to ftop refpiratlon, or when the 

 midwife has the fenfe to lay the miferable cap- 

 tive on its fide, that the natural moifture may 

 fponianeoufly flow from its mouth ; for it is de- 

 nied 



