TIME OF USING THE BATH.--When resorted to for sudden illness, the bath
must of course be employed at any time needed. When used for any
complaint of long standing, or a measure of hygeiene, as a general
rule, it should be taken between breakfast and dinner, about two hours
after the former, or an hour and a half before the latter. This implies
that the infant should never be put into the bath after having been
freely nourished at the breast. Neither should it ever be used when the
child is in a state of free perspiration from exercise, or on awaking
from sleep.
Chap. III.
OF TEETHING, AND HINTS ON THE PERMANENT OR ADULT TEETH.
The infant at birth has no teeth visible: the mouth is toothless. It
possesses, however, hidden in the jaw, the rudiments of two sets. The
first of these which makes its appearance, are called the Temporary or
Milk Teeth; the second, the Permanent or Adult Teeth, and these come up
as the former fall out, and so gradually replace them.
Sect. I.--ON TEETHING.
THE MANNER IN WHICH THE TEMPORARY OR MILK-TEETH APPEAR.--The first set
of teeth, or milk-teeth as they are called, are twenty in number; they
usually appear in pairs, and those of the lower jaw generally precede
the corresponding ones of the upper.
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