Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children. By the late Hugh Smith, M.D.
- Title
- Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children. By the late Hugh Smith, M.D.
- Author
- Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.
- Publication
- Philadelphia: :: From the press of Mathew Carey.,
- August 14,--M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
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- Subject terms
- Infants -- Care
- Infants -- Health and hygiene
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Link to this Item
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- Cite this Item
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"Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children. By the late Hugh Smith, M.D." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N19060.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- LETTER I. Of Marks—the imaginary consequences of frights and longings. A candid enquiry into the merits of this doctrine.
- LETTER II. Of Marks—showing that such blemishes may happen in|dependently of the mother's imagination.
- LETTER III. OF MISCARRIAGES.
- LETTER IV. Mothers milk—the natural and best food for infants.
- LETTER V. Arguments in favour of suckling—as well for the mo|ther's sake, as the child's—and the evils to be appre|hended in delivering children to the care of foster nurses.
- LETTER VI. The management of infants from the birth—with direc|tions for putting them to the breast.
- LETTER VII. A natural and easy method of suckling children.—This duty proved to be a pleasure rather than a fatigue.
- LETTER VIII. The proper method of weaning children.
- LETTER IX.
- LETTER X. A general management of children, from the time of weaning, till they are about two years old—with ob|servations upon the cutting of teeth.
- LETTER XI. A general management of children, from two years old, till they leave the nursery.
- LETTER XII. The necessity of cultivating the dispositions of children, to render them amiable and virtuous.
- LETTER XIII. Of milk—Its properties examined—the different kinds of milk compared with each other—and their parti|cular virtues explained.
- LETTER XIV. The sick chamber—with directions also for invalids.
- LETTER XV. Old age—by virtue rendered truly honourable. The steps by which we mounted into life, shown to be the easiest and best paths to descend into the grave.
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