Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D.

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
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Credit: Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D. 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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    Not to trouble my fair readers with any more of thefe relations, which, by prejudiced perfons, are accounted undeniable, I (hall juft mention a few facts for the con- fidcration of the candid. A lady of my particular acquaintance, during the time of her pregnancy, was unfortunately overturned in a coach; by which accident, as (he endeavoured to get out, the iirfl joint of her fecond finger was entirely bro- ken off. This was an alarming circumftance to all her friends, and the dreadful apprehenfions of the child's being born a cripple difturbed every one; but, to the great aftonimment of her acquaintance, (lie was deliver- ed of a line and perfefl boy. An eminent practitioner relates a ftory to this effeifr, , which is equally to be credited, as happening under his own o'ofervation. A lady of quality being in convulfions, the family fent for the doctor in great hafle. He found her upon the bv.d, extremely ill indeed. When her ladylhip came a little to herfelf, me cried out, The black cat! the black cat !—her well-known particular averfion to this domeftic-animal f.cmcd to point out the caufe of the Iter, of which till now they were entirely ignorant; and the fcrvants diligently fetched for the objetf; when in a tub, placed to receive the rain-water near her lac!y- fhip's dreiiing-room window, poor pufi was difcavered. This fight fo terribly aiFefled the lady, that her fears were ever t, and flie was^miferable until the