Our discussions, on various points, went on at intervals, until I succeeded in planting some ideas in her mind, and when she left me, at the end of six weeks, she confessed that she had learned some valuable lessons.

As the baby had slept quietly most of the time, had no crying spells, nor colic, and I looked well, she naturally came to the conclusion that pure air, sunshine, proper dressing, and regular feeding were more necessary for babies than herb teas and soothing syrups.
Besides the obstinacy of the nurse, I had the ignorance of physicians to contend with.

When the child was four days old we discovered that the collar bone was bent.

The physician, wishing to get a pressure on the shoulder, braced the bandage round the wrist.

"Leave that," he said, "ten days, and then it will be all right." Soon after he left I noticed that the child's hand was blue, showing that the circulation was impeded.