The responsible duties of upper nursemaid commence with the weaning of the child: it must now be separated from the mother or wet-nurse, at least for a time, and the cares of the nursemaid, which have hitherto been only occasionally put in requisition, are now to be entirely devoted to the infant.

Thus, should illness assail her, her milk fail, or any domestic cause abruptly cut off the natural supply, the child having been annealed to an artificial diet, its life might be safely carried on without seeking for a wet-nurse, and without the slightest danger to its system. 2489.

And so, my friend, we are fast coming, not only in France, but in other countries where the odious wet-nurse system is in vogue, to a race of wretched, degenerate women, who will be absolutely powerless to nourish their offspring.

Wet-nurse Suckling - 27 Choice of a Wet-nurse - 28 Diet and Regimen of a Wet-nurse - 31 3.

Thus, infantile dietetics naturally divides itself into Maternal Nursing, Wet-Nurse Suckling, And Artificial Feeding.

If this deficiency exist from the earliest weeks after delivery, and it is not quickly remedied by the means presently to be pointed out, a wet-nurse must be obtained.

Accordingly, on the 5th October, the patient, taking with her the infant and a wet-nurse, went a few miles from town.

The only measure that can save the life, and recover an infant from this state, is that which would previously have prevented it a healthy wet-nurse.

In some cases it will be right to continue it until the first set of teeth have appeared, when it will be desirable that a fresh wet-nurse should be obtained for the last six months.[FN#7]

The child, then, under all the foregoing circumstances, must be provided with its support from another source, and a wet-nurse is the best.

On the other hand, if you are seeking a wet-nurse for an infant of four or five months old, it would be very prejudicial to transfer the child to a woman recently delivered; the milk would be too watery for its support, and its health in consequence would give way.

The regimen of a wet-nurse should not differ much from that to which she has been accustomed; and any change which it may be necessary to make in it should be gradual.

It is hence of no small moment, that a wet-nurse be of a quiet and even temper, and not disposed to mental disturbance.

This discouraged the mother from adopting wet-nurse suckling for the third child (a great error); and an artificial diet of cow's milk was resorted to.

To cure derangement of the bowels from this cause, a wet-nurse is the only remedy.

This circumstance puzzled the medical attendant, for he could not trace it to any physical ailment; but the milk never returned, and a wet-nurse became necessary.

It will be wise, therefore, if pregnancy should occur, and the milk disagree with the infant, to resign the duties of a nurse, and to put the child upon a suitable artificial diet;if, however, pregnancy should take place before the infant is six month's old, a wet-nurse ought to be procured. FROM IRREGULAR NURSING.This is one of the most frequent sources of derangement of the stomach and bowels of the child.

But if she should be no longer competent to suckle, and her infant be delicate, a wet-nurse must be obtained; for, the infant's bowels becoming disordered, medicine or remedies will avail little without healthy breast milk.

The infant must be brought up on the breast, and if the mother is not of a decidedly healthy and robust constitution, she must obtain a wet-nurse possessing such qualifications.

Wet-nurse suckling, 27. , rules for the choice of, 28. , diet and management of, 31.

Jules Favre, as Joseph, leads the ass by the reins, and a wet-nurse, who holds the Comte de Paris in her arms instead of the infant Jesus, is seated between the two panniers, trying to look at once like Monsieur Thiers and the Holy Virgin.

Reef the t'gallant sails of your temper, boy, and don't run foul of an old man who has been all but a wet-nurse to yetaught ye to walk, and swim, and pull an oar, and build ships, and has hauled ye out o' the sea when ye fell infrom the time ye could barely stump along on two legs, lookin' like as if ye was more nor half-seas-over.

" "Well, Buzzby," replied the boy, laughing, "if you've been all that to me, I think you have been a wet-nurse too!

My mother was wet-nurse to the Adamses and they thought the world and all of her.

Besides your own dhye, brought from Calcutta, there is not another wet-nurse to be had, for love or money.