Volume 1

A treatise on the diseases of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth / by Michael Underwood, M.D. Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians, in London, and physician to the British Lying-in Hospital.

  • Michael Underwood
Date:
M DCC LXXXIX. [1789]
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth / by Michael Underwood, M.D. Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians, in London, and physician to the British Lying-in Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    [ ] reception wherewith the former was fo generally honoured. Particular acknowledgements, indeed, are due for the approbation of the faculty ; and the like candor, it is hoped, will now excufe any alterations that have been intended to render this edition more eafy and familiar to common readers. For the fake of public utility, the writer has care- fully avoided all technical terms, or has fo explained them, and fo en- larged on the nature of difeafes, and the dofes of medicines, that parents, and others not verfed in the prac- tice of phyfic, may find all common diredtions fufficiently explicit: when- ever