X. THE _INFANT_ being in these respects _provided_ for, it is now to be duly dressed and swaddled in its _Swathing-Cloathes_; and beginning with the _HEAD_, a _Compress_ of a three or fourfold fine _Linnen Rag_, about _four Inches broad_, is to be applied to the _MOULD_, for defending the (yet open) _BRAIN_ from _Cold_, &c. which _Compress_ is to be carefully covered with, and pinned to the ordinary _CAPS_ made on purpose. Next then, some small soft _RAGS_ are to be laid behind the _Ears_, upon the _Breast_, in the _Arm-Pits_, and the _Groins_; after which the _BABE_ is to be wrapped softly up in _warm Blankets_, and discreetly _swathed_; not too strait, especially not about the _Breast_ and _Stomach_, that it may _breathe_ the freer, and the better retain the _MILK_ it sucks. The _ARMS_ are to be stretched along the _Sides_, and the _LEGS_ equally _streight_, with a little of the _Bed_ betwixt them; and the _HEAD_ is always to be kept steady, as the whole _CHILD_ is to be preserved _thus_ warmly wrapped up, and judiciously appointed. But now because the _INFANT_ is commonly committed to the _Nurse’s Care_, I shall, in the next Place, enter upon the _Description_ of the proper _Person_ for that purpose. [Illustration] CHAP. VIII. _Of the NURSE and her Regimen, together with the requisite Qualities of her MILK._ THO’ the _BABE_ may be brought up by the Hand only, without _Suckling_, as many Instances of very thriving _Children_ testify; yet because the most natural, common, and commendable way is to _suckle_ it, I come now to touch upon the proper _NURSE_, her _Milk_, and _Diet_. Upon which I first observe, that the prime and chief _Quality_ of a good _NURSE_ is, that she be the _Mother_ of the _Fosterling INFANT_ herself; and that because her _MILK_, being generated of the same _Blood_, of which the _CHILD_ is formed, and has hitherto been nourished, is of a nearer _Affinity_ with the Nature of her _BABE_, than the _MILK_ of any _other strange Woman_ whatsoever; which can differ no less from the _Maternal Milk_, than the own _Mother_, and the _other_ differ in _Constitution_ and _Temperament_ of Body, _Regimen_, and _Method of Living_, &c. All which affect the _INFANT_ in no small Degree; for as the BLOOD is generated of the _Chyle_, and the _Spirits_ of the BLOOD, so the _CHILD_ imbibes the very _Manners_ and _Disposition_, as well as the gross _Humours_ and _Qualities_ of the _NURSE_ with her _Milk_.