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The Nurſery.
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The firſt thing to be attended to, is laying the foundation of a good conſtitution. The mother (if there are not very weighty reaſons to prevent her) ought to ſuckle her children. Her milk is their proper nutriment, and for ſome time is quite ſufficient. Were a regular mode of ſuckling adopted, it would be far from being a laborious task. Children, who are left to the care of ignorant nurſes, have their ſtomachs overloaded with improper food, which turns acid, and renders them very uncomfortable. We ſhould be particularly careful to guard them in their infant state from bodily pain; as their minds can then afford them no
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