The married lady's companion, or Poor man's friend : in four parts : I. An address to the married lady, who is the mother of daughters : II. An address to the newly married lady : III. Some important hints to the midwife : IV. An essay on the management and common diseases of children : to which will be added a short note on fever / by Samuel K. Jennings.

  • Jennings, Samuel K. (Samuel Kennedy), 1771-1854.
Date:
1808
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Credit: The married lady's companion, or Poor man's friend : in four parts : I. An address to the married lady, who is the mother of daughters : II. An address to the newly married lady : III. Some important hints to the midwife : IV. An essay on the management and common diseases of children : to which will be added a short note on fever / by Samuel K. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ertion to raise your daughter's expectations pf the pleasures of the world, the first con- siderable disappointment will be sufficient to destroy her health, peace, and perhaps her life. But if you begin early to teach her, that earthly things are fleeting. That God has stamped the mark of uncertainty on all the comforts of this life, to teach man that his true happiness dwells not here, but is risen. By such lessons properly inculcated, her mind will be prepared to meet the loss of a friend, or any other misfortune, with com- posure. Perhaps you may say this is preaching.— Call it by what name you please, it is truth, and therefore deserves your regard. It im- plies the necessity of Religion, and of the prospects which religion brings to view, for support under the calamities of life. Your daughter is now a blooming maid, but if your wishes are accomplished, she will short- ly be a wife, and the mother of children.— She must of course, be liable to become a widow, and to be bereft of those children.— Even granting it as a certain thing, that she shall live and be blest to see them grow up and multiply around her, yet she must suffer eonsiderable apprehension in every instance @f her pregnancy. And if she have the af-