The Young Mother

s in diet and drink. Signs of failing health. Causes of a bad breath. Flesh eat

n without exhausting the subject.[Footnote: Such a volume is in preparation. It is intended as a compa

epeat the sentiment. And yet it is to be feared that very few receive it as a practical truth, in the management of chil

e out of ten is the exact proportion, though I think the number is, at all events, very large. Few children, or even grown persons, are seized with disease suddenly. Their progress towards it is always gradual, and sometimes impercepti

y know a child's health to be declining, even before be appears to be sick.-For if these are neglected, the evil increases, goes on from bad to worse, and more violent and app

it should be sweet and fragrant, like a nosegay of fresh flowers, or a pail of new milk from a young cow that feeds upon the sweetest gras

n the fragrant breath here alluded to. Who has not observed the difference in this respect, between animals in general which feed on flesh, and those which feed on grass? And whether it is the character of their respective food that makes the differ

ill produce the same effect. The enormous feeders of this full feeding country, whether they are young or old, whether they inhabit the mountain or the vale, and whether they feed on animal food or not, have generally a bad breath; and if

uled and disturbed the blood; and now is the time to apply a proper remedy, and prevent a train of impending evils. Let the child be restrained in its food. Let it eat le

revent the necessity of giving them. There is a foolish fear abroad that physicians, if called before a person is violently sick, will dose him with their drugs, as a matter of course, till they make him sick. But this, no judicious physician will eve

n many instances save a severe fit of sickness, besi

sought, his sleep will soon become disturbed; he will be talking, starting, and tumbling about, and will have frightful dreams; or he will at other times be found s

edly sometimes does inherit a tendency to a particular disease; or he may be made sick by error in regard to dress, exercise, &c. But so long as nine tenths of the disease and