Advice to mothers, on the subject of their own health
Subtitle: and on the means of promoting the health, strength, and beauty, of their offspring ...
By: By William Buchan, M.D. ...
Publisher: Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies
Published: 1803
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Women; Health and hygiene; Child care; Gynecology; Child Care
Notes: The appendix (p. 377-419) is largely a reprint of William Cadogan's An essay upon nursing, and the management of children. Cf. National Library of Medicine.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: I. Hints to women before marriage; title: II. Rules of conduct during pregnancy; title: III. A few remarks on childbirth; title: IV. Of the nursing and rearing of children; title: V. Of dwarfishness and deformity; title: VI. Baneful effects of parental tenderness, or what may be called an extremely delicate and enervating education; title: VII. Of employments unfavourable to the growth and health of children; title: VIII. Of accidents; title: IX. Of foundling hospitals, and other charitable institutions for the rearing of poor or deserted children; title: X. Sketch of a plan for the preservation and improvement of the human species.