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. 15. _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 make assurance doubly sure, after once tying it, she should pass the threads a second time around the navel-string, and tie it again; and after carefully ascertaining that it no longer bleeds, fasten it up in the rag as before. Bleeding of the navel-string rarely occurs, yet, if it should do so--the medical man not being at hand--the child's after-health, or even his life, may, if the above directions be not adopted, be endangered. 16. _When does the navel-string separate from the child_? From five days to a week after birth; in some cases not until ten days or a fortnight, or even, in rare cases, not until three weeks. 17. _If the navel-string does not at the end of a week came away, ought any means to be used to cause the separation_? Certainly not, it ought always to be allowed to drop off, which, when in a fit state, it will readily do. Meddling with the navel string has frequently cost the babe a great deal of suffering, and in some cases even his life. 18. _The navel is sometimes a little sore, after the navel-string comes away, what ought then to be done_? A little simple cerate should be spread on lint, and be applied every morning to the part affected, and a white-bread poultice, every night, until it is quite healed. NAVEL RUPTURE--GROIN RUPTURE. 19. _What are the causes of a rupture of the navel? What ought to be done? Can it be cured_? (1) A rupture of the navel is sometimes occasioned by a meddlesome nurse. She is very anxious to cause the navel-string to separate from the infant's body, more especially when it is longer in coming away than usual. She, therefore, before it is in a fit state to drop off, forces it away. (2) The rapture, at another time, is occasioned by the child incessantly crying. A mother, then, should always bear in mind, that a rupture of the navel is often caused by much crying, and that it occasions much crying, indeed, it is a frequent cause of incessant crying. A child, therefore, who, without any assignable cause, is constantly crying, should have his navel carefully examined.