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 / by William Buchan.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1774
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Credit: 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 / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v- s Were the time that is generally fpent by females in the acquifition of trifling accompltfhments, employed in learning how to bring up their children; how to drefs them To as not to hurt, cramp, or confine their motions *, how to feed them with wholefome and nourifhing food ; how to exercife their tender bodies, fo as bed to promote their growth and drength : Were thefe made the objedts of female inftrudlion, mankind would derive the greated advantages from it. But, while the education of females implies little more than what relates to drefs and public fliew, we have nothing to expedl from them but ignorance, even in the mod important concerns. Did mothers refledt on their own importance, and lay it to heart, they would embrace every opportunity of informing themfelves of the duties which they owe to their infant-offspring. It is their prov ace, not only to form the body, but alfo to give t] c mind its mod early bias. They have it very much in their power to make men healthy or valetudinary, ufeftil in life, or the peds of fociety. But the mother is not the only perfon concerned in the management of children. The father has an equal interdt in their welfare, and ought to affid in every thing that refpedis either the improvement of the body or mind. women in Rome ufed to account it their chief glory to keep the houfe and attend their children; but that now the young infant was committed to the foie care of fome poor Grecian wench or other menial fervant.—We are afraid, wherever luxury and effeminacy prevail, there will be too much ground for this complaint. B 3 It