Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children / by Hugh Smith.

Date:
1792
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children / by Hugh Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    edition ^ but as I hope I have fpoken with candour, and as I mean to perfuade, rather than to find fault, it is to be wifhed that the younger part oif the female fex at leaft, #hom it more nearly concerns^ will not receive this little prefent with fuch uncon- querable prejudices as would probably have been experienced from their grand-damesi If, by addreiling their underftanding, I fhould be happy enough to convince thek judgment of the propriety of the following obfervations, I truft they may prove in fome meafure beneficial both to thcmfelves and their future daughters, in the exalted cha- raders of wives and mothers. There is a certain refpedt due to oilr an- ceftors and their cuftoms; and, for my own part, I would never embrace new maxims or opinions, but upon full convidlion of their claiming preference to old ones. Still it fhould be remembered^ the mind was never defigned