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as far as he could the very poorest of mothers to make 

 the best of exceedingly adverse conditions in caring 

 for their babies. 



Two years after the beginning of Herrgott's Nancy 

 experiment, in 1892, Professor Budin, of the Charite 

 Hospital, Paris, started a Consultation de Nourris- 

 sons upon a somewhat more carefully studied plan 

 in connection with that institution, and this proved 

 so successful that he has since established others 

 in connection with the Matemite Hospital, 1895, and , 

 the Clinique d' Accouchement Tamier, 1898. As there . 

 are many of these Consultations de Nourrissons in 

 Europe, usually maintained by public-spirited ac- 

 couchers and philanthropic societies, all conducted 

 upon the same broad lines, though differing in details 

 of management, a description of those conducted by 

 Professor Budin will sufficiently describe them aU. 

 Where they differ in very important particulars from 

 others, the nature of such differences will be pointed 

 out. The Consultations of Professor Budin are at- 

 tached to maternity hospitals and limited to the 

 children born in them. The mothers are admitted 

 to the maternity institutions free of charge, but they 

 must agree before entering the institutions that after 

 their discharge they will bring their babies to the 

 hospital for examination at least once each week 

 imtil the end of the second year. At childbirth the 

 mothers are carefully examined to see whether they are 



