Babies And Cradles

Some Dr. Jacksou has recently ctelivered a lecture on tho children, tn which he thus troata the rucking systeui : " As soon as the child is born, processes are eotnrrtenoed with its lif'e direotly culculutod to mak t artificial and fulse, ÜÍ' contiivancea in this direct. on, eradles, or rocking cots, are in cciinnou use. And what is vvoise thun ttie 9ubj0lÍ0B ol the babe to tho 1110tioQ which the eradle brings, is the vvay in which the rnotiou is made. Kockin"1 a eradlo f rom side to side is vury uuhealthy for the child who is in ït. ü motion is deerued advisable, havo the rockers run lengthwise ui' the eradle, =o that the motion sliall b peristaltic, iiot oscillating. Many children are ir.ade to squint, or are mad cross-eyed, by thia sideway or vibratary motion. In some cases "of highly wrought, nervous organizat-üii, cerebral congestión ensues, especially when the child in kept in the eradle many hours at a lime, and rocked all the while, The etiket on the nerves and the circulaiiou, is like thai of a narcotic, and sleep ind jced thereby is unheulthy. Cradles if ueed at all, should alway.s rook leugünvise, and not sidewi.-ie. My tatber, an nJiopatliiu phywcian, hud the imuily cradie in.ido in thia way, and all of bia chidren were rocked up and down, so that the sensation produced by violent rockiugs was sueh as onc gets frorn twingiug. " Cots without rockers are bct'.er nleeping places than eradles. Nature seeks no such contrivancs ordinurüy, to induce sleep, any more than she does paragoric, cordials, uuodynea and the like. In fact, there is ,u nearur ancj more natural lelation exisüng betwuen the eradle and the parsgoric bottle, than at firet thought one is apt to suppose. If a inotlier wishes a child to I sleep well, habitually, other things bej ing favorab'o, sbe should lay it away in j a quiet place, and vvhere it can be tree ' fro"m jogging rno ion. Addicted to this eourso, it Necurcs ropose and rest under the appropriato want of thern bv means of the inslincts of seli-pieseivaI tion."