Chapter XXXIII: Part VII: The Care of the Baby

CHAPTER XXI. CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE AVERAGE NEW-BORN
BABY. New Functions. Description. Growth and Development. Weight.
Height. Head and Chest. Fontanelles. Teeth. Stools and Urine. Skin.
Tears. General Behavior.

CHAPTER XXII. NURSING CARE OF THE NEW-BORN BABY. Mortality of First
Months and Year of Life. Preventable Causes. Dangers of Babyhood.
Essential Features of Early Care. Daily Schedule. Bath. Clothes.
Fresh Air. Exercise. Training the Baby. Bowels. Thumb-sucking.
Ear-pulling. Crying. Ruminating. Feeding: Breast Feeding. Artificial
Feeding. Necessary Characteristics of Artificial Food. Requirements
for Milk Used. Articles Needed in Preparing Food. Preparation of
Milk. Pasteurization. Boiling. Giving the Bottle. Ingredients of
Food. Percentage Feeding. Average Formulae. Mixed Feeding.
Commercial Baby Foods. Proprietary Foods, Canned Milks, Milk
Powders. Other Articles of Food Sometimes Included in Baby Diet.
Travelling. The Premature Baby. Summer Care of the Baby.

CHAPTER XXIII. COMMON DISORDERS AND ABNORMALITIES OF EARLY INFANCY.
Malnutrition, Marasmus and Inanition. Diarrheal Diseases: Acute
Gastro-enteritis. Symptoms. Treatment and Nursing Care. Acidosis.
Colic, Constipation, Convulsions, and Vomiting. Infections:
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Symptoms, Treatment, and Nursing Care.
Syphilis. Thrush, or Sprue. Impetigo. Pemphigus. Vaginitis.
Abnormalities: Icterus or Jaundice. Cephalhematoma. Club Foot.
Engorgement of Breasts. Hare Lip. Cleft Palate. Hernia.