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CASES CITED.

We selected only a few cases to illustrate the above statement. Thousands
of cases occur every year that might be cited to illustrate these
principles. A mother cannot be too careful, and she should have the hearty
co-operation and assistance of her husband. We quote the following cases
from Dr. Pancoast's Medical Guide, who is no doubt one of the best
authorities on the subject.

1. A woman bitten on the vulva by a dog, bore a child having a similar
wound on the glans penis. The boy suffered from epilepsy, and when the fit
came on, or during sleep, was frequently heard to cry out, "The dog bites
me!"

2. A pregnant woman who was suddenly alarmed from seeing her husband come
home with one side of his face swollen and distorted by a blow, bore a girl
with a purple swelling upon the same side of the face.

3. A woman, who was forced to be present at the opening of a calf by a
butcher, bore a child with all its bowels protruding from the abdomen. She
was aware at the time of something going on within the womb.

4. A pregnant woman fell into a violent passion at not being able to
procure a particular piece of meat of a butcher; she bled at the nose, and
wiping the blood from her lips, bore a child wanting a lip.

5. A woman absent from home became alarmed by seeing a great fire in the
direction of her own house, bore a child with a distinct mark of the flame
upon its forehead.

6. A woman who had borne healthy children, became frightened by a beggar
with a wooden leg and a stumped arm, who threatened to embrace her. Her
next child had one stump leg and two stump arms.

7. A woman frightened in her first pregnancy by the sight of a child with a
hare lip, had a child with a deformity of the same kind. Her second child
had a deep slit, and the third a mark of a similar character or modified
hare lips. In this instance the morbid mind of the mother affected several
successive issues of her body.

8. A pregnant woman became frightened at a lizard jumping into her bosom.
She bore a child with a fleshy excrescence exactly resembling a lizard,
growing from the breast, adhering by the head and neck.

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The Care of New-Born Infants.

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1. The first thing to be done ordinarily is to give the little stranger a
bath by using soap and warm water. To remove the white material that
usually covers the child use olive oil, goose oil or lard,