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PART I: INFANCY - Infant and suckling_Ablution Should the navel-string be wrapped in SINGED rag? There is nothing better than a piece of fine old linen rag, unsinged; when singed, it frequently irritates the infant's skin. How ought the navel-string to be wrapped in the rag?   Take a piece of soft linen rag, about three inches wide and four inches long, and wrap it neatly round the navel string, in the same manner , you would around a cut finger, and then, to keep on the rag, tie it with a few rounds of whity-brown thread. The navel-string thus covered should, pointing upwards, be placed on the belly of the child, and must be secured in its place by means of a flannel belly-band. If after the navel-string has been secured, bleeding should (in the absence of the medical man) occur, how must it be restrained? The nurse or the attendant ought immediately to take off the rag, and tightly, with a ligature composed of four or five whity-brown threads,  retie the navel-string; and to...