Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D.

  • Hugh Smith
Date:
1792
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Credit: Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Now is it to be wondered at, if thefe fport- ings of nature mould bear a refemblance to fome or other of the vaft variety of objects in the animal or vegetable creation ? Or in fact, if they bear no fuch real refem- blance, cannot the imagination readily fuppofe they do j in like manner as, when looking upon the clouds, we eafily defcern men, horfes, trees, forefts, flocks of flieep, armies, and indeed every thing which the molt fruitful invention can form ? Some further rational conjectures might be added, but they would probably in this place be confidered as too technical for the generality of my readers: I mall therefore wave them at prefent j for I think there has been already enough faid upon this fubject, to check at leaft, if not! entirely to fubdue, thefe reigning infatuations. Now if the doctrine of marks, in confequence of frights and' longings, mould prove to be nothing more than prejudice, ladies will avoid the continual diftrefs which in thefe circum- ] fiances-