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NURSES in general.
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children have suffered by sucking diseased women.
Some can never be brought to suck, although they have no apparent hinderance;
and others are prevented by some swelling or disorder about the mouth
or throat.
NUMB. III.
UPON such
occasions, we must choose an elderly woman properly qualified for the task,
and well accustomed to the duties of a dry nurse. The food ( as we have
formerly observed) ought to be light and simple, in quality resembling,
as nearly as possible, the mother's milk; such as thin panada, mixed with
cow's milk, and sweetened with sugar: or should the child be costive, instead
of sugar, honey or manna may be used. If there is any reason to believe,
that the loaf-bread or biscuit is made of flour which hath been mixed with
allum, for the sake of the colour, the common panada ought this case to
be laid aside, in favour of thick water-gruel, mixed with milk, and sweetened
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