sUFFOCATION OF INFANTS.
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Infant children are two frequently eX
posed to risks of suffocation, from the i'm
prudent covering of their mouths, by Their
nurses. The accession OF air to thel1
lungs is thus prevented, and death ensues
for every animal destroys the air it breathe,
and infants require the circulation OF al


least a gallon of air minute. Deprived
of this circulation, the air in the lungs 10.
ses its elasticity, the action of the prima-
ry organs is stopped and It is vain that
the little victim gasps unseen, TIL death
puts an end to its suiierngs. At ripper
age, when the frame is endued with more
strength, and conciousness OF the cause
'of suffering is entertained, the struggle
of children to escape from suilocauon D,
means of clothes thrown over their faces
may be commonly observed, and shoulc
be received as lessons.


1t is but little time since, poor wo
man, walking in storm Of wind, between
Iunsdon and Ware, sheltered her lnian
so effectualy with her cloak, that melap
choly to tell, on her arrival at the end o
her journey, the child. whom she had ian
cied asleep, was dead
Among the German ballads, latei,
imported into England, is one entitled th'
|" Erl-King" The story exactly resem
lbles that of the poor woman at Ware.
describes father hurrying on horseback
through forest, in the midst of storm


and carrying his infant child beneath HI


cloak


Who is it rides through the forest 81
lfast:" &c. And it ends with the death Q


the child, which is discovered when th'
ia ther reaches his home:


|" And when that he came to his own castle doc.


Life throbbed in the poor baby's bosomno more.


Now, the "Erl-King,'' or Wood Demon
is the supposed spirit of the forest ma
levolent being to whose agency this an


similar misfortunes of travellers are attr
: Ibuted by superstition. But, as we see
: the catastroph need no such aid Tor II
y!production. The fathers cloak, and th
! CLOSE keeping Of the child, during the rld'
] was all sufficient.


e Corresponding stories, concerning witcf
] es who suck out the breath Of children, an
e a variety of others, may all be traced
y the same urigina'-the sufocation prod
T. ced by an injudiclous exclusion OF AR.
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