An essay on the management and nursing of children in the earlier periods of infancy : and on ... pregnancy and ... lying-in.

  • Moss, William.
Date:
1781
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Credit: An essay on the management and nursing of children in the earlier periods of infancy : and on ... pregnancy and ... lying-in. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. IMPROVEMENTS in Medicine have of late been more confiderable and frequent than formerly; which is to be attributed to the more than ufual freedom with which refearches are profecuted, and difcoveries communicated, by its profeffors, in almoft every department. The fubjedts upon which we are about to enter have not been altogether difregarded; yet they have had a lefs fhare of attention bellowed upon them, and have not been fo minutely inveftigated as moft of the others; nor have the difcoveries, made therein, been improved upon and fo gene- rally applied to pradtice. In inquiring into the occafion of this omiffion, it will appear, that they have always been con- fidered as fituations that neceffarily fall within the fphere