How to nurse a child, or, The management of children and their diseases / by Alexander Milne.

  • Milne, Alexander
Date:
1880
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Credit: How to nurse a child, or, The management of children and their diseases / by Alexander Milne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The object of this book is to give plain and practical hints and directions in regard to the rearing of chil- dren, and their treatment when afflicted with disease. It is not at all meant to supersede the properly-quali- fied medical man (far from it), but only to make his duties less irksome when called in, and to help to avert and arrest complications and dangers when he cannot be present at an early period of the disease. The Author has been often asked to write such a book, but has not undertaken the task until possessed of twenty years’ practical experience. During that period it has been his lot to attend many thousands of chil- dren, and to witness—alas ! too often—pangs and pains, sufferings and death, which might have been avoided had a little knowledge been present, or, rather, he might say, had the grossest ignorance not prevailed. This want of knowledge was not confined more par- ticularly to any one class; indeed, often existed where it might have been least expected. The Author has noticed a progressive improvement during his time; but many mothers still have as little idea what to do
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