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Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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f the modern society girls chatelaine. The baby,clad in furs suitable for a cold climate, was protesting mostvigorously against his environment. The elder child had that serious, prematurely-old look, socommon among children brought up in rigorous climates. Quite naturally, the woman from sunny Italy, accustomedas she is to carrying jugs of water and heavy loads of freight PEDIATRICS ii nicely balanced on her head, might sometimes balance a baby,crib and all in this manner. The Italian baby, accustomed early to the wide bandagewith which he is enveloped, somewhat after the manner of amummy, seems contented under any circumstances. He sel-dom cries, not even if carried like a shawlstrap by one of thefolds of his binder, or under the arm like a a golf bag, or stoodin a corner like a bundle of sticks. When it is realized thathis parents cannot talk if prevented from gesticulating bytying their hands to their sides, then it may be understoodwhy the Italian baby is silent when immobilized.
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Hungarian Mother and Child 1 2 PEDIATRICS The Arab mother car-ries her baby in the mostuniversally used method—in the left arm; she, never-theless, swathes it in mostgaudily colored clothes,thewhole bound around witha heavy knitted or embroi-dered band. The Arab mother de-lights in adorning her babywith many glass bracelets,rings and necklaces. Notsatisfied with its naturalbeauty she must have itsarms tatooed, its finger-nails stained a rich orangecolor with henna, itseyelashes blackened witha sort of make-up stage-paint. And to completeher savage fetishismshe has a small round spot

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