Title: Advice to mothers, on the subject of their own health; and on the means of promoting the health, strength, and beauty, of their offspring ...
Authors: Buchan, William, 1729-1805; Cadogan, William, 1711-1797.
Publisher: Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies,
Year: 1803
Subjects: Women Health and hygiene; Child care; Gynecology; Child Care
Contents: Introduction -- I. Hints to women before marriage -- II. Rules of conduct during pregnancy -- III. A few remarks on childbirth -- IV. Of the nursing and rearing of children -- V. Of dwarfishness and deformity -- VI. Baneful effects of parental tenderness, or what may be called an extremely delicate and enervating education -- VII. Of employments unfavourable to the growth and health of children -- VIII. Of accidents -- IX. Of foundling hospitals, and other charitable institutions for the rearing of poor or deserted children -- X. Sketch of a plan for the preservation and improvement of the human species.