When and how; or, A collection of the more recent facts and ideas upon raising healthy children

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Preface

Believing that there is not as much thought, study, and care spent upon "the knowing how" to raise healthy children as there should be — that children are what they are more by accident than from any reasoning, so far as it concerns anything that human knowledge can effect ; and believing that this ought not to be thus — need not be thus ; and believing further, that " child-raising " is far more important than " stock-raising," though — judging from the efforts in that direction — it is not so considered; and knowing of no work written for the unscientific reader that gives the advanced ideas of Hygiene and Physiology as applied to the "ways and means" of obtaining healthy children: we have attempted to give, in terms and language adapted to popular reading, the latest wellfounded knowledge in this direction.

\i' we have succeeded in our undertaking sufficiently to call the attention of parents to the importance of

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raising healthy children or raising none, we shall feel that our effort has accomplished a good and a great mission.

We have tried to teach that Nature has laws, and that if we would work in harmony with these laws, we must try to interpret the teachings that come to us instinctively, and then follow all the lessons of the infinite Creator as above the teachings of the finite creature.

The general reader we would ask to read, and think this subject over, as of value to him and his descendants ; and to help his neighbor to the same " Hows ; " that as many children — who come into this life without being consulted — as possible, may come healthy, and then be raised in health.

The scientific reader we would ask to be charitable, and to lend a helping hand to roll away the stone of physical ignorance that. is crushing the health — yes, the life — from many a '•man in embryo;" and to educate the people above uniting those diseased elements that must entail disease upon their innocent child.

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