The female monitor, : consisting of a series of letters to married women on nursing and the management of children. / By the late Hugh Smith, M. D. With occasional notes and a compendium of the diseases of infants. By Dr. John Vaughan.
- Hugh Smith
- Date:
- 1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The female monitor, : consisting of a series of letters to married women on nursing and the management of children. / By the late Hugh Smith, M. D. With occasional notes and a compendium of the diseases of infants. By Dr. John Vaughan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![sent, took me to the window, and in great distress acquainted me the child had a large mark upon the right side of its face; that she was terrified at the thoughts of break- ing it to her daughter, and begged me to ‘acquaint her of it. Accordingly, after eongratulating the good lady in the straw, upon her own health and a fine baby, in the course of conversation, I jocosely told her that we were at a loss to account for a pretty spot upon the child’s face, and must - desire her to inform us of the occasion of it. After a very minute recolle@ion, she — frankly confessed she did not remember ~ any one-thing that. she longed for during her pregnancy, neither could she any how - account for the accident.:. A variety of other circumstances might - be enumerated, to discredit, though many | stories are related to confirm, this wonder- - ful affair... I-shall not; however, introduce » further | particulars, though -divers have - happened within my notice; but conclude - this letter with remarking, that in every in. stance before related,: where the. misfor- - tune of a blemish: was apprehended, it did : not happen ; and im the other cases, where - marks appeared, were entirely unex. - pected, and the cause of them totally un. - known to the mothers ; which, ] may ven-- C a+ &](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33030571_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
