Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children

This is family book. This was, of course, a miracle; but how often does water, without any special intervention, act miraculously both in preventing and in curing skin diseases! An infant's clothes, napkins especially, ought never to be washed with soda; the washing of napkins with soda is apt to produce excoriations and breakings-out. 'As washer women often deny that they use soda, it can be easily detected by simply soaking a clean white napkin in fresh water and then tasting the water; if it be brackish and salt, soda has been employed.