Advice to a mother on the management of her children, and on the treatment of their most common illnesses & accidents / by Pye Henry Chavasse .

  • Pye Henry Chavasse
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Advice to a mother on the management of her children, and on the treatment of their most common illnesses & accidents / by Pye Henry Chavasse . Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION It has fallen to my lot to witness the prejudices and mistakes and consequent dangers which Mothers, especially young ones, fall into from the want of some little work to guide them in the management of their offspring. When it is considered that the first years, nay months, of an infant’s life frequently determine whether he shall live or (if he live) whether he shall be healthy or otherwise, it would appear that too much attention cannot be paid to the subject. Several works have been written on the manage¬ ment of children, but none, I conceive, have been sufficiently explicit or have entered enough into minutise, or have dwelt on that which is of as much or more importance than the cure of the disease, namely, the prevention. As none other competent person has filled up (what appears to me) this vacuum, I have ventured to send forth the following few hints. I have not broached any new doctrines nor made any new discoveries. All that I have attempted is to have written useful advice in a clear style, stripped of all technicalities, which mothers of every station may understand. It may be said that I have described too much into particulars and that I have dilated upon subjects not strictly coming under the province of a medical man, but, with due deference, I reply that nothing is too
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