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      On Food. By Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S...

      farinaceous food . The Lancet for January 12 th , 1861 , has a longletter on " Infant Alimentation , " by this lady , to which , we refer

      those among our readers interested in the subject .

      280 Notices Of Books.

      280 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

      On The Natural Artificial Period Sucklin...

      On the Natural Artificial _Period Suckling of Suckling . By , and Frederick on the M J . Brown of , H M earing . D . Infants by

      Db . _Bkothnv like Mrs . Baines , recommends the substitution of good cow ' s milk for breast milkin all cases where the mother is unable

      to suckle her childwith the , addition of white sugar or barley-water until the child arrives , at the age of three or four months , when _,

      scalded white bread may be added with advantage . * Dr . Brown deprecates spoon-feeding , and insists upon suction by breast or bottle

      for the first nine months . His little pamphlet contains some valuable information on points where much ignorance prevails , and

      we therefore commend it to wives and mothers .

      The Medical Profession Welbeck ; Its Str...

      The Medical Profession Welbeck ; its Street Aims , and Cavendish Objects S . quare By a . Surgeon . ! Newby 5

      The Medical Kegister Act of 1858 , and the fashionable and , as Dr . Wilkes trulsays _" abominable sj _> ecialties by which the profession

      is placed in y the hands , -of a few men having one solitary idea , " are the objects of the author ' s anathema . The view taken of the

      profession generally is liberal and ennobling .

      Seventh Annual Report Of Children The Ne...

      Seventh Annual Report of Children the New for Yorh the Infirmary itear 1860 for . Indigent Women and

      This Report shows great progress , and opens by announcing that a larger and less expensive house than that hitherto occupied

      hasbeen secured to the Institute in an excellent and healthy situation .. The objects of the Infirmary

      are—1 st . To provide for poor women the medical advice of competent physician 2 nd . To s of assist their own educated sex . women in the practical study of

      medicine . 3 rd . To train nurses in the care of the sick .

      Marked success has attended all these endeavors , under the able superintendence of Drs . Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell . But in

      New York as here at the Sick Child's Hospital in Great Ormond difficult Street , where has been arrangements experienced are in made procuring for training suitable persons nurses , . " . much . ¦ . .

      There are y constant applications made to the Infirmary for nurses , and _; the supply is quite inadequate to the demand . ' The total

      number of patients , indoor and out , treated in the year , amounts ta

      3 / 3 . 43 ..

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/64/