Advice to the female sex in general, particularly those in a state of pregnancy and lying-in : the complaints incident to their respective situations are specified, and treatment recommended, agreeable to modern practice : the result of observation and experience : to which is added, an appendix, containing some directions relative to the management of children, in the first part of life / by John Grigg, practitioner in midwifery, surgeon to the Pauper-Charity in Bath, and late of his Majesty's Navy.

  • Grigg, John, active 1789-1814
Date:
1789
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Credit: Advice to the female sex in general, particularly those in a state of pregnancy and lying-in : the complaints incident to their respective situations are specified, and treatment recommended, agreeable to modern practice : the result of observation and experience : to which is added, an appendix, containing some directions relative to the management of children, in the first part of life / by John Grigg, practitioner in midwifery, surgeon to the Pauper-Charity in Bath, and late of his Majesty's Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —-— no plainer truth appears. Our moft important are our earlieft years ; The mini impreffible and foft, with eafe Imbibes and copies what (he hears and fees, And through Hfe's labyrinth holds faft the clue That EDUCATION gives her, falfe or true. COWPER. ]^ut with the acquifition of mental qualifications and perfonal accomplifliments, fome degree of knowledge fhould be obtained relative to the pre- fervation of general health, and particularly that fpecies of it, without which their whole frame may be materially injured, if not wholly deftroyed. In this point of view fome precautions are necef- fary with refpeft to the manner of conducing themfelves, at the particular and well known pe- riods of menftruation; and fuch prudential hints fhould be deemed not as matters of indiiference to thofe, who have the infpe£lion and dire6lion of their education; as inattention to, or ignorance of what may be beneficial or hurtful at this time, is the fource of many difeafes and misfortunes in life, which a few fenfible inftrudive lefTons might have prevented. Obfervations of this kind fhould be well attended to by mothers, and thofe who are entrufted with the care of their daughters, fince thereby many painful confequenccs may be avoid- ed ;
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