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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    CONTENTS LETTER I. Of Mark9—the imaginary consequences of frights and longings. A candid enquiry into the merits of this doctrine. page 13 LETTER II. Of Marks—showing that such blemishes may happen independently of the mother's imagination 3 l LETTER III. Of Miscarriages 43 LETTER IV. Mother's milk—the natural and best food for infants 59 LETTER V. Arguments in favour of suckling—as well for the mo- ther's sake, as the child's —and the evils to be ap- prehended in delivering children to the care of foster nurses 69 LETTER VI. The management of infants from the birth—with di- rections for putting them to the breast 77