The new domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... ; To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan.

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1813
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Credit: The new domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... ; To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «nd to both. And in vain does she flatter herself that her guilt is concealed, or that no law exists to punish it. The laws of nature are never violated with impunity, and, in the cases alluded to, the criminal is made at once to feel the horrors of late remorse, and the keenest pangs of a torn, disordered, and incurable frapie. But sup- pose that a miscarriage brought about by such detest- able means did not endanger the health and life of the mother; suppose that an act held in such just abhor- rence, both by earth and Heaven, could possibly escape punishment; suppose a woman deaf to the cries of na- ture, iucapable of tender emotions, and fearless of any immediate sufferings in her own person : I have one ar- gument more to make her stop her murderous hand; perhaps the embryo, which she is now going to destroy* would, if cherished in her womb, and afterwards reared with due attention, prove the sweetest comfort of her future yeans, and repay all her maternal care with bound- less gratitude. It may be a daughter to nurse her in her old age, or a son to swell her heart with joy at his honourable and successful career in life. On proper conduct during pregnancy.—The Doctor says, on this important subject, “that cheerfulness or good humour is superior to all other considerations. In this state, more than in any other, the-changes of bodily health seem to be almost wholly under the immediate influence of the mind; and the mother appears well or ill according as she gives way to pleasant or to fretful emotions. I admire that fragment of ancient history in which we are informed that the eastern sages, while their w ives were pregnant, took care to keep them con- stantly tranquil and cheerful by sweet and innocent amusements, to the end that, from the mother s womb, the fruit might receive no impressions but what were pleas- ing, mild, and agreeable to order, bo fine a lesson of w is- dom, and of parental as well as conjugal love and duty, cannot be too closely studied, or too diligently .cariied into practice, by the husband who sets any value on his wife’s health,—who wishes to secure her affection and gratitude,—and who pants for the exquisite happiness of