Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-29

he The pcrnicious practice INDUCED in by
So many mothers 3f applying the infant to
the breast at any aid 81 times to still Its
cries. should be discouraged. The mother
should be- impressed With the importance OF
regularity 10 feeding. OF handled Infants,
We believe that thousands have been sacri-
need by the use Of that most treacherous
breeder Of disease Eerms-tho flexible nurs-
ing tube. a thing IRE mis-. which requires
so much care to make "a what 1t seems-a
simple. harmless deyiGe-ought never to
have found its way to the lips Of a new born.
Aside from itself being a disease breeder. Its
use encourages the pcrufclous habit OF filling
a large nursing bottle and putting the nipple
into the child's mouth. while il lies in its
crib or carriage, allowing it to eat aud sleep
alternately for the greater part OF the time.
BY taking food in this irregular manner
there can be no such thing as a healthy di-
g@Cstion."
THE Importance of Proper Infant APP
parcl aud Its Influence Upon Nutrition was
a subject to which DR.. p. Il. Friem Of Man
chester. Ia. devoted his attention. He EN-
phatically denounced the custom OF tightly
bandaging babies. On this point he OBJ
served: Next in Importance to the main
terauep OF equitable temperature is the free
dom OF muscular action and circulation. Per-
haps an Illustration can be drawn from the
more primitive method known as swaddltng,
"A tale Of the olden time When the child
was completely dressed in It's bandage 1t not
unaptly resembled a billet OF wood or the
form OF an Egyptian mummy. The skin was
sometimes excoriated, the flesh compressed
almost to gangrene. the circulation nearly
arrested and the child left without the
slightest power Of motion. In a word, 1t hat
no resemblance to anything living; 1t:
frequent and unavailing cries alone deter
mined it to be human. Such is the descrip.
ton of this relic OF barbarism by DR.. w. p
Devices in lS47. In the light Of experience,
and the progress of science. have we in thi.
year Of our Lord 1898 thoroughly diveste,
our infants of this damnahle bandage? We
there was some ground for plausihllity whel
the whole body was enveloped by the ban
dage, but the practice loses all semblance t
I rational procedure when both ends are GU
e off and the child is b!sected crosswiSe. TIL
violation of every fundamental law of 1t
l being cannot fail to meet with disastrous eff
;, fects to the child.
. Lns. oS section work.
The section in obstetrics took up the even
ing. Those who had papers on variou
branches of this subject were Or. l.. l.. Dan
forth of New York. the chairman, and DR.:
c. B. Kinyon of Ann Arbor, Mich, A. W
Blunt of Clinton, Ia, c.. a. Weirick of Chi
= csgo. Henry e. Spalding of Boston, w. I
Hapchett of Omaha and Amelia Burrough
II of Boston. This completes the sections
- work.
Many Of the doctors have already starte
D. for home, but those who are still here wi
u pay the Omaha and Grant smelter a visit,
y response to an invitation from DR.. o.
\ Wood, the chairman of the local M
and will thus get an opportunity of SEER
: the largest smelling plant in the world.
Ne IN his report to the institute DR.. w.
. King of Washington, D.. c., chairman of Il
10 press committee, paid attribute to The b.
Vi for it's full reports of the convention.