The management of infancy, physiological and moral : intended chiefly for the use of parents / by Andrew Combe.

  • Combe, Andrew, 1797-1847.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The management of infancy, physiological and moral : intended chiefly for the use of parents / by Andrew Combe. 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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    INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR. Several considerations induced me to under- take the pleasant task of revising and editing Dr Combe's valuable Treatise on the Manage- ment of Infancy. The subject is one in which I feel a deep interest, and to which I have given much attention during my professional life ; a long and intimate friendship also with the enlightened Author afforded me frequent opportunities of discussing with him the sub- jects treated of in the following pages. I thus became well acquainted with his opinions on the causes of the frightful mortality which occurs during the earlier periods of life; and I shared with him the conviction, that the hope of diminishing the evil rested entirely on our being able to enlighten parents and the public generally on the causes of such mortal- ity, and to instruct them in the means of its