Friendly cautions to the heads of families and others, very necessary to be observed in order to preserve health and long life : with ample directions to nurses who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. : third edition with additions / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, Robert Wallace, 1719 or 1720-
Date:
1804
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Credit: Friendly cautions to the heads of families and others, very necessary to be observed in order to preserve health and long life : with ample directions to nurses who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. : third edition with additions / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    qualifies them to judge. The Physician who orders the various articles of diet, is frequently ignorant^ ds ivell as the familyy of the mode cf -preparing them j but by means of this treatise, one uniform method 'will be attained, which is of vast import^ ance; and ignorance ivill no longer be a cloak for omissions. Seme parts cf this Utile treatise, may ^ be regarded as unnecessary, such for in- stance, as that which rep robates the use of stays, as this fashion does not now exist: But, as we see similar fashions again rising into existence, the Editor thinks it right to retain it, as bearing testimony a* gainst their future introduSiion, to the de- stru5lion of hundreds of the loveliest por- tion of the Creation, PhilaUelpKia, Nov. 26, 1804.