Infants are particularly susceptible to the impressions of cold, an appropriate fee, so a suitable clothing of the body, it is necessary to their enjoyment of health. Unfortunately, an opinion is prevalent in society that the tender child has naturally a great power of generating heat and cold resist, and from this popular error is the cause of the fatal consequences. This advice has been worked hard by the insidious way in the cold more on the frame, the adverse effects are not apparent during or immediately after application, so all too often fatal consequence of a wrong source or return the child reduces the context the action of an unknown cause. 

The power of generating heat in warm-blooded animals is lowest at birth and a gradual increase in maturity, young animals, instead are warmer than adults, colder usually one or two degrees, and some of their heat easily, facts can not be too well known. They show how absurd dive, the folly of the system of "hardening" of the Constitution (which was made earlier), the parent company, the tender and delicate child induced in the cold bath at all seasons of the year, and keep clear the the cold, cutting currents of an easterly wind, with the lightest clothing. 

The principles that should be a parent in clothing her child's instructions are as follows: 

The material and amount of clothing should be such that a sufficiently large part to the heat retention in the body, regulated by the seasons, and the delicacy and strength of the state of the child. In implementing this, however, the parents against the all too common practice of wrapping the child in innumerable folds warm clothes and constantly keep them in a very hot and tight spaces limited hat, runs to the other extreme, what I have just alluded: for nothing so much tends to the Constitution to undermine the disease induction, and the skin very sensitive to the impression of cold to make, and so these very problems he intends to produce the head monitor. 

In their need they be so placed no restrictions on the free movement of all parts of the body of the child, and so loose and easy as possible insensitive welding have a free output, rather than limited and contained by the clothing and remains in contact with until the skin irritation. 

In their quality they should not irritate the sensitive skin of the child itself. In infancy, is rather rough washcloth, but is desirable if the child gets older, because it gives a gentle stimulus to the skin and promotes health.

In its construction the dress should be as simple as acknowledging establishment phase quickly because dressing is unpleasant for the child, allowing them to cry, and exciting as much mental irritation as it is capable of feeling. Pins should be completely eliminated, its use as dangerous by the carelessness of nurses, and even by the ordinary movements of the baby itself. 

The clothing should be changed daily. It is very conducive to good health that a complete change of clothing should be made every day. Otherwise, the cleaning substantial shortfall in their duties, particularly in the insurance free of skin diseases. 

The clothing of the child must have the same characteristics as those of childhood. The heat has to pay for such materials are not to provoke the skin, and so unnatural narrowing opportunity. 

In terms of heat, may be well again to repeat that too little clothing is frequently productive to the sudden attack, the active disease, and that children with light clothing exposed in a climate so variable as ours are the frequent subjects Cross and other dangerous disorders of the airways and lungs. On the other hand should not be forgotten that warm clothing is a source of the disease, sometimes from the same diseases that originate in the cold, and often makes the frame more susceptible of the impressions of cold, especially in the cold air recorded in the lungs. Regulating the clothes, then after the season, again winter early, was later destroyed because it is in spring and autumn that the vicissitudes of our climate are greatest, and congestive and inflammatory complaints most common. 

In terms of material (as already noted), the skin is at this age bear flannel next to him, and it is not only right but necessary. It can be used with advantage during the night, and cotton maybe replaced during the summer, the flannel, resumed in early autumn. For very large delicacy of constitution it proves too irritating to the skin, fine fleecy hosiery will in general suffer a little, and is much more conducive to maintaining good health. 

It is very important that the clothing of the boys should be such that there are no restrictions on the movements of the body or limbs, nor injurious pressure on his waist or chest, were found. All his muscles have complete freedom of action, because their free exercise promotes both growth and activity and thus insures the regularity and efficiency of the different functions that these muscles are weak. 

This applies with equal force to the dress of the girl, and happily, during childhood, at least, no distinction is made between the sexes on this issue. Not the case, if the girls will be built in this period of life, a system of dress is then adopted the most harmful consequences for their health and development of the body, the employment of close to prevent the free and full impact of the airways in which only one of the many restrictions and injurious practices from which in later years, they are doomed to suffer so much.