The female monitor, consisting of a series of letters to married women on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D. ; with occasional notes and a compendium of the diseases of infants / by Dr. John Vaughan.

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.
Date:
1801-[02]
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Credit: The female monitor, consisting of a series of letters to married women on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D. ; with occasional notes and a compendium of the diseases of infants / by Dr. John Vaughan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    ADVERTISEMENT. J. HE reputation, which Dr. Smith's Letters have received from the public, precludes the necessity of panegyric from me. It, however, may be useful to inform the reader of the motives which induced me to comment upon them—The familiar style and judicious recommendations of our author, could not fail of be- ing acceptable to unprejudiced females ; and having confined himself to general principles, and the more common rules of managing infants, 1 was induced to believe, that a few illustrations of some important po- sitions, and a brief account of the diseases of infants, would not be useless to the young and inexperienced mother. V.