Advice to mothers on the subject of their own health: and on the means of promoting the health, strength, and beauty of their offspring / [William Buchan].

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1811
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Credit: Advice to mothers on the subject of their own health: and on the means of promoting the health, strength, and beauty of their offspring / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out any painful facrifice. The path along which I propofe to conduct her is plain and eafy, the profpe6ts all round are delightful, and it leads to the pureft fources of happinefs. The more I reflect on the fituation of a mother, the more I am ftruck with the extent of her powers, and the in- eftimable value of her fervices. In the language of love, women are called angels; but this is a weak, and a fdly compliment; they approach nearer to our ideas of the Deity : they not only create, but fuftain their creation, and hold its future deitiny in their hands : every man is what his mother has made him, and to her he mu ft be indebted for the greateft bleffing in life, a healthy and vigorous confutation. But while I thus fpeak of the dignity of the female character, it muft be un~ derftood that by a mother I do not mean the woman who merely brings a child.