p. 541 | TO MOTHERS-BARE LIMBS

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1880

TO MOTHERS—BARE LIMBS.

BARE limbs of children gratify the vanity of mothers, but they send multitudes of beautiful children to a premature grave. It would be safer to have the arms, hands, feet and legs, warmly encased in a double thickness of woolen flannel, with less on the body in the fall of the year. It is especially important to keep the extremities of children and infants warm for every second of their existence. Whether a child is sick or well, when the hands and feet begin to get cold, it is nearing the grave, because the blood retreats to the inner organs, oppresses them, and causes painful and dangerous congestions and inflammations, which often induce death in a few hours, as in croup, diphtheria, quinsy, and the like. A young mother should never go to bed until she has noticed that the feet of her sleeping ones are abundantly warm; to be assured of that is to know that croup before morning is impossible.