The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley].

  • Thomas Wakley
Date:
1846
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Credit: The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MOTHER’S MEDICAL ADVISER. INTRODUCTION. In offering this little manual to the perusal of mothers, it is the sincere wish of the author that it may be of service in correcting many abuses, not only in the management, dress, diet, nursing and education of children, hut that, by following the directions herein contained, much disease, suffering and distortion of figure may he obviated or relieved. There is, perhaps, no field more interesting or im¬ portant for enquiry and observation, than that which is presented by an investigation of those maladies of early life unfolded to us by the infant economy. The periods of life treated of in this essay, are Infancy, Childhood, and Boyhood or Girlhood, with incidental observations relative to adults. Infancy may be subdivided into two periods. First, From birth to the commencement of the first dentition, or cutting of the teeth. Second, From the commencement to the completion of the first dentition. The second stage, or that of childhood, extends from the completion of the first to the completion of the second dentition. The third stage, or that of boy or girlhood, extends from the seventh or eighth vear to the commencement of puberty. 11
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