The management of infancy and childhood, in health and disease / by Howard Barrett.

Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The management of infancy and childhood, in health and disease / by Howard Barrett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. The following pages have been written from no weak yielding on the part of the author to the cacoethes scribendi, but simply, as it is believed, to supply a widely-spread, and, often, strongly-felt want In placing his work before the public, the writer cannot altogether extinguish a feeling of regret that the fertile field of inquiry which its subject opens up, had not been occupied by some abler mind, and that a more veteran pen than his had not portrayed it in a worthier manner. He does not lose sight of certain excellent existing works that treat of various sections of this subject in a manner which he can never hope to rival, but he believes that there is no popular handbook extant of the same scope, nor con- taining the same wide-reaching information on the Management of Infancy and Childhood, as this. Herein lies its raison d'etre.