Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines ; With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / [William Buchan].

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1786
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Credit: Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines ; With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Were the time that is generally fpent by females in the acquifltion of trifling accomplifhments, employed in learning how to bring up their children; how to drefs them fo as not to hurt, cramp, or confine their motions i how to feed them with wholefome and nourifhing food; how to exercife their tender bodies, fo as belt to promote their growth and ftrength: Were thefe made the objeds of female inftrudion, mankind would derive the greatest advantages from it. But, while the education of females implies little more than what relates to drefs and public fhew, we have nothing to exped from them but ignorance, even in the mod important concerns. Did mothers reflect on their own importance, and lay it to heart, they would embrace every opportunity of informing themfelves of the duties which they owe to their infant offspring. It is their province, not only to form the body, but alfo to give the mind its moft early bias. They have it very much in their power to make men healthy or valetudinary, ufeful jn life, or the pefts of fociety. But the mother is not the only perfon concerned in the management of children. The father has an equal intereft in their welfare, and ought to aflift in every thing that refpecfs either the improvement of the body or mind. It is pity that the men fhould be fo inattentive to this matter. Their negligence is one reafon why y/omep in Rome ufed $o accoupt in their chief glory to keep the houfe and attend their children ; hut that now the younginfant was committed to the foie care of fome poor Grecian wench, or other menial fervant.—We are afraid, wherever luxury and effeminacy j)r^vail, there will be too much ground for this complaint. B 3 females