Excerpt from Letters to a Mother, From a Mother, on the Formation, Growth, and Care of the Teeth
Teach her that these principles must be applied and these precepts acted upon, not only through the nine months of gestation, while she supplies all the elements of nutrition thro... Læs mereugh her blood, but also during the whole period of lactation, when her milk is not only the sole magazine of lime-salts for the further development of the teeth and bones, but the only source of nutriment for the whole body of the rapidly-growing child.
If, after weaning, she will habituate her child to plain, wholesome food, with scrupulous cleanliness of, and abundant exercise for, the organs of masti cation; provide it with comfortable, easy dress, and enforce strict obedience to the laws of health, what a splendid race of men and women should we see in the next generation!
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