[Domestic medicine].

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
[1786+]
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Credit: [Domestic medicine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an equal intereft in their welfare, and ought to aflift in every thing that refpedts either the improvement of the body or mind. It is pity that the men fhould pay fo little regard to this matter. Their negligence is one reafon why females know fo little of it. Women will ever be defirous to excel in fuch accomplifhments as re- dommend them to the other fex. But men gene- rally keep at fuch a diftance from even the fmalleft acquaintance with the affairs of the nurfery, that many would efteem it an affront, were they fuppo- fed to know any thing of them. Not fo, however^ v^dth the kennel or the ftables ; A gentleman of the firft rank is not afhamed to give diredlions concern- ing the management of his dogs or horfes, yet would blufh were he furprifed in performing the' fame office for that being who deriv'ed its exiftence* from himfclf, who is the heir of his fortunes, and the future hope of his country. Even phyficians themfelves have not been fuffi- ciently attentive to the management of children : That has been generally confidered as the foie pro- vince of old women, while men of the firft charac- ter in phyfic have refufed to vifit infants even -wheni fick. Such condudl in the faculty has not only caufed this branch of medicihe to be neglefted, butt has alfo encouraged the other fex to affume an ab- folute title to preferibe for children in the moftt dangerous difeafes. The confequence is, that a phyfician is feldom called till the good women have exhaufted all tlieir fldl]; when his attendance can only;