A familiar treatise on the physical education of children, during the early period of their lives / Tr. from the German ... To which are prefixed, three introductory lectures on the same subject: by A.F.M. Willich.

  • Struve, Christian August, 1767-1807.
Date:
1802
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    rial office; and a good mother equally deserves the affe&ion of her husband, and the esteem of the world. Parents who may peruse this Treatise, will be 'convinced that children, from their very birth, ought to be treated in a manner different from' what is commonly practised, if they are intended to become healthy and happy members of society. They will here be made acquainted with the causes which contribute to. produce so many mi- serable and unhealthy children; crippled and Corrupted men, both in mind and body; and the premature deaths of numbers almost incredible. Disconsolate parents will perhaps discover, when too late, what has occasioned the floods of tears shed on the graves of beloved children; nay, after they have acquired more correct ideas of the treat- ment proper in infancy, and should then inspect the usual nurseries, they will frequently wonder how such a proportion of children can escape the' general calamity. Man has a strong propensity to charge Nature' with his foibles and faults ; though it be certain that this universal parent, if uncontrouled by the hands of art, produces no caricatures, either in the vegetable or animal kingdoms. He is placed on this globe tolerably perfect, by the hands of the Creator; but he too frequently degenerates under the treatment of his misguided fellow-crea- tures. Many /