Definitions

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  • noun The rearing of young children, conceived of as an art or science.

Etymologies

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From French puériculture. Compare agriculture, pisciculture, aquaculture, and so on.

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Examples

  • [4] The word "puericulture" was invented by Dr. Caron in 1866 to signify the culture of children after birth.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Having said that, all power to the word puericulture.

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  • It would be largely settled, no doubt, if a wise and thorough course of sexual hygiene and puericulture formed part of the training of all school teachers, as, in France, Pinard has proposed for the Normal schools for young women.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Pinard, carried puericulture a step further back, but a very important step, by initiating a movement for the care of the pregnant woman.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The care of the infant has indeed now become a new applied science, the science of puericulture.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • In the end they will probably be considered necessary centres for any national system of puericulture.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • [117] Thus in France the low birth-rate is associated with a high infantile death-rate, which has not yet been appreciably influenced by the movement of puericulture in France.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Professor Budin of Paris may fairly be regarded as the founder of puericulture by the establishment in Paris, in 1892, of Infant Consultations, to which mothers were encouraged to bring their babies to be weighed and examined, any necessary advice being given regarding the care of the baby.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • In connection with the movement of puericulture initiated by Budin and

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Pinard must be mentioned the institution of Schools for Mothers, for it is closely associated with the aims of puericulture.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

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