Letters to a mother on the watchful care of her infant.

Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters to a mother on the watchful care of her infant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chiefly, I regard the mother as the natural guardian of her infant's health. I do not mean that she is to supply the place or to undertake the office of the physician, which would be prepos- terous ; but that she should be the watch over her child, and the alarmist if its health should become deranged. Do not therefore expect a system of quackery in these Letters;—a set of nostrums for infantile complaints. I have a far higher and nobler object in view. It is to enable you to judge when your infant is threatened with danger, and so to send for medical aid,—before it is too late! Physicians have, indeed, so often to regret that they are summoned in infantile diseases when the monitory signs, in cases of a sudden or insidious attack, have passed away unheeded, and