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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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Arabian Woman and Child PEDIATRICS 3 burned with a hot iron on the top of the childs head. This,she claims wards off evil influences and especially prevents eyetroubles. Of course it was useless to point out to her thenumerous adults from her country who had chronic conjuncti-vitis in spite of the magic scar on the vertex. This is not a party of Alpine mountain-climbers lashed to-gether, but a Norwegian mother with her numerous broodfastened together with a long rope to prevent loosing them inthe hurly-burly of landing in America. The mother carries
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Indian Woman and Child the infant in a shawl across the front of the chest, the shawlarranged so as to produce traction on her back and neck. This is one of our native American Indian mothers andchild returning with a wild-west show from Europe. She hadlong since abandoned the papoose frame once used byAmerican Indians from Canada to the tropics. This papooseframe in the north was made of birch-bark, with pillow of 1 4 PEDIATRICS the finest fur. Further south, as the climate became milder,the bark gave place to a little rack or gridiron of sumac orreed, with an awning to protect the face of the child from thesun. Here we have a basketful of babies, while not an easy wayto carry them, is one very comfortable for the babies. Besides,the father is compelled to lend a hand and carry one end ofthe basket. This seems like an entirely improvised way ofcarrying them, one rather to utilize the basket than to econo-mize force, just as immigrants, with that strange, sentimentalaversion to partin

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