An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age / By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan].

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797
Date:
1749
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age / By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T is with great Pleafure I fee at lafic the Prefervation of Children become the Care of Men of Senfe : It is certainly a Matter that well deferves their Attention, and, I doubt not, the Publick will foon find the good and great Effects of it. The Foundling Hofpi- tal may be of more Ufe to the World, than was perhaps at firft imagin’d by the Promoters of it; it will be a Means not only of preventing the Murder of many, but of faving more, by in¬ troducing a more reafonable and more natural Method of Nurfing. In my Opinion, this Bufinefs has been too long fatally left to the Management of Women, who cannot be fup- pofed to have proper Knowledge to fit them for fuch a Task, notwithstanding they look up¬ on it to be their own Province. What I mean, is a Philofophic Knowledge of Nature, to be acquired only by learned Obfervation and Expe¬ dience, and which therefore the Unlearned mu ft be incapable of. They may prefume upon the Examples and tranfmitted Cuftoms of their Great Grand-mothers, who were taught by the (Phyficians of their unenlighten’d Days; when Phyficians, as appears by late Difcoveries, were miftaken in many things; being led away by A a hypo-