What You Ought to Know about Your Baby: A Text Book for Mothers on the Care and Feeding of Babies, with Questions and Answers Especially Prepared by t

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Excerpt from What You Ought to Know About Your Baby: A Text Book for Mothers on the Care and Feeding of Babies, With Questions and Answers Especially Prepared by the Editor This is a book that the delineator sends to mothers because we believe that the American woman needs a knowledge of child hygiene. The census statistics Show that one in every Six of the children born in the United States does not live to be one year of age. A great many of those who survive grow up to a life of sufier ing and incapacity, handicapped in the struggle of existence, for from 70 to 90 per cent. Of American school-children have one or more physical defects. The conservation of humanity, the per fection of the race, is the watchword of to - day. More and more the doctor is interpreting it as his mission to teach people how to keep well. And the place to begin is with the babies. Mother instinct has done much through the ages. But mother training equipped with all the knowledge that science can give, may do much. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.