In caring for young infants great pains is taken to cleanse all the orifices daily, but as soon as the child washes himself this practice is usually abandoned.
One great chapter in disease, the sickness and mortality of infants and children, is almost a complete blank.
At Gezer the skeleton of an adult female had been placed under the corner of a house, and the bones of infants were often found in or under the walls of houses down to the later Israelite period.
The burial of new-born or very young infants in jars, in or near some sacred locality (p.
This has even been observed in infants a few months old.
It should be added, however, that the contagiousness of inherited syphilis is denied by some observers, who affirm that, when syphilitic infants prove infective, the disease has been really acquired at or soon after birth.
In young infants in whom multiple fractures occur the prognosis as to life is unfavourable, and no satisfactory treatment of the disease has been formulated.
In infants at the breast, the drug may be given to the mother; in others, it is administered in the same manner as already described--only in smaller doses.
When syphilis is met with in infants and young children, it is apt to be taken for granted that the disease has been inherited.
Tetanus neonatorum is a form of tetanus occurring in infants of about a week old.
This disease, described by Barlow and Cheadle, is met with in infants under two years who have been brought up upon sterilised or condensed milk and other proprietary foods, and is most common in the well-to-do classes.
Erysipelas occasionally attacks an operation wound that has become septic; and it may accompany septic infection of the genital tract in puerperal women, or the separation of the umbilical cord in infants (erysipelas neonatorum).
For then, an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure.
The Sacrament will then be administered, and the blessing of infants attended to.
The bread and wine were administered, and ninety-five infants were blessed.
The eastern ruler, they said, slew only the infants of one poor village, but their emperor, more ruthless, claimed the lives of all the young children of his whole empire.
Eyeglasses are so much the common lot of humanity these degenerate days that babies are nearly born with them, to judge at least from the tender age of the bespectacled infants one sees trundled past in their perambulators.
Maternal and filial love also must be abolished, infants being taken from their mothers and educated in common.
Just as the care of her infants taught her sympathy, so the daily inculcated duty of sacrificing herself for her lord and master fostered the germs of adoration.
Nor do they practise infanticide; but this abstinence is counterbalanced by the fact that the custom of destroying infants before birth prevailed to a melancholy extent (79).
As for women's breasts, if utility were the criterion, the most beautiful would be those of the African mothers who can throw them over their shoulders to suckle the infants on their backs without impeding their work.
I have nowhere seen such tenderness lavished upon infants as upon the pet dogs that the women carry about with them.
And in the same page he adds that "it is not infrequently the case that infants are married to each other .
Such a germ of esthetic pleasure we find in our infants years before they have the faintest conception of what is meant by personal beauty; and this brings me to the pith of my argument.
Sometimes the infants were smothered over a fire (Waitz, VI.
What else could lead those who parted infantson the hills of Derbyshire, to meet thus in the valleys of Man?
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Infants and young people, diseased and healthy, intelligent and mentally deficient, normal and abnormal, good and bad, are all welcome.
Infants of seven or eight months have been known to scratch at any attempt to withdraw the breast from them, and to retaliate when slapped.
How can we account for all infants sinning so soon as they begin morally to act, if, before they sin, they are in a state of grace and sanctification?
If there be a universal depravity of will previous to the actual choice, then it inevitably follows that though infants do not commit actual sin, yet that theirs is a sinful nature.
Yet not in the same degree sinners as Adam was, for the latter sinned both as human nature and as a person, while new-born infants sin only as they possess the nature.
In the Amsterdam edition of his works, 8:522, we read: "I do not doubt that the infants whom the Lord gathers together from this life are regenerated by a secret operation of the Holy Spirit.
The views which have been presented with regard to inborn depravity and the reaction of divine holiness against it suggest the question whether infants dying before arriving at moral consciousness are saved, and if so, in what way.
Infants are not specifically named here, because the intention is to include others who, though mature in years, have not reached moral consciousness.
Northrop held that, as death to the Christian has ceased to be penalty, so death to all infants is no longer penalty, Christ having atoned for and removed the guilt of original sin for all men, infants included.
This text implies that (a) Sin exists in the case of infants prior to moral consciousness, and therefore in the nature, as distinguished from the personal activity.
The souls of infants killed at birth were supposed to return in the bodies of grasshoppers.
According to Stewart, in those parts of Hawaii to which the influence of the missionaries had not penetrated, two-thirds of the infants born were murdered by their parents within the age of two years.
Even more dangerous than the spirits of dead infants were supposed to be the spirits of human germs, which the Maoris imagined to exist in the menstrual fluid.
The argument would prove too much, for it would apply equally to all the infants that have been so cradled in all parts of the world.
It was painful in the extreme, to behold them, with their infants hanging upon their shoulders, groping about in search of herbs or seeds, and exposed as they frequently were to the inclemency of the weather.
The intention of these ceremonies is said to be to avert evil spirits from the child,(31) and a like motive is assigned by other peoples for the practice of placing newborn infants in a winnowing-basket or corn-sieve.
Well might Rachel, a mother in Israel, have wept, had she witnessed this cruel order executed on the infants of her race!
The necessity of caring for the infants would prolong the period of maternal affection, and would tend to keep the father and mother and children together, but it would tend especially to keep the mother and children together.
According to the earlier doctrine, concerning the original corruption of human nature, the power of daemons over infants had been long reckoned considerable, in the period intervening between birth and baptism.
It will be recollected, that I was informed immediately after receiving the veil, that infantswere occasionally murdered in the Convent.
The next is a small sitting-room, where a priest waits to baptize the infants previous to their murder.
Would a child destined to destruction, like the infants I had seen baptized and smothered, be allowed to go through the world unmolested, a living memorial of the truth of crimes long practised in security, because never exposed?
Now I presume that the period the book embraced, was about two years, as several names near the beginning I knew; but I can form only a rough conjecture of the number of infants born, and murdered of course, records of which it contained.
In purgatory are multitudes of people; and in one part, called "The place of lambs," are infants who died unbaptized.
I then told him, that while a nun, in the convent of Montreal, I had witnessed the murder of a nun, called Saint Francis, and of at least one of the infants which I have spoken of in this book.
It immediately occurred to me that the white substance was lime, and that this must be the place where the infants were buried, after being murdered, as the Superior had informed me.
Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
