The young mother, or Management of children in regard to health.

  • Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The young mother, or Management of children in regard to health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    once; and when they are so, they should be avoided. But in general, it is the effect of a habitual use of certain things for a long time together—and the longer the experiment the better—which we are to observe. A book to guide mothers in the formation of early good habits in their offspring, should be the result of long observation and much experi- ment on these points, but more especially of a thorough understanding of human physiology. It should not consist so much of the conceits of a single brain—perhaps half turned—as of the logical deductions of severe science, and facts gleaned from the world's history. Here is a nation, or tribe of men, bringing up children to certain habits, from generation to generation,—and such and such is their character. Here, again, is another large por- tion of our race, who, under similar circum- stances of climate, &c. &c, have, for several hundred years, educated their children very