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LECTURE II.
"Artificial Feeding."
By Dr. Mina Dobbie.
Defects of artificial foods, including milk.
Cow's Milk: preparation, dilution, quantities, boiling, pasteurisation,
sterilisation.
Storage of milk—Bottles—Teats.
Condensed milk—Difference between emergency feeding and
permanent feeding—Albumen water, raw beef juice, Whey—Barley
water—Some patent foods.
LECTURE III.
" The Clothing and General Management of Infants."
By Dr. Lilias Fraser Nash.
The skin and its functions—Cleanliness.
Objects of clothing—Source of heat.
Values of different materials.
Dangers of flannelette, how obviated.
Special clothing: binder, napkins, undergarments, foot and
head clothing, bed clothes.
Mail or push cart.
Nursing: the room (open fireplace, window), food storage;
temperature, vomiting, diarrhoea, rigors.
LECTURE IV.
" The Health of the Mother."
By Dr. E. Claude Taylor.
Before the birth of the child: food, activity and rest; surroundings
(physical and mental); woman's labour, factories, etc.—
What we may learn from the Jews.
After the birth: dangers of getting up too early, heavy work, etc.
Suckling: advantages to mother as well as to infant; care of
the breasts, cleanliness.
Food: how best to keep up the supply of milk; danger of
reliance on stout or other alcoholic beverages.
Rest and recreation.
Questions as to other children in the family.
Supreme importance to the national life of the Home.