Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines ; With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines ; With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I of children; s Did mothers refled on their own importance, and fay it to heart, they would embrace every opportunity of informing themfelves of the duties which they owe to their infant offspring. It is their province, not only to form the body, but alfo to give the mind its rnoft early bias. They have it very much in their power to tnake men healthy or valetudinary, ufeful in life, or the pefts of fociety. But the mother is not the only perfon concerned in the management of children. The father has an eqifal intereft in their, welfare, and ought to affift in every thing that refpeds either the improvement of the body or mind. It is pity that the men fhould be fo inattentive to this matter. Their negligence is one reafon why females know fo little of it. Women will ever be defirous to excel in fuch accomplifhments as recom- mend them to the other fex. But men generally keep at fuch a diftance from even the fmallefl acquaint- ance with the affairs of the nurfery, that many would reckon it an affront, were they fuppofed to know any thing of them. Not fo, however, with the ken- nel or the flables: a gentleman of the firft rank is not afhamed to give diredions concerning the ma- nagement of his dogs or horfes, yet would bluffi were he furprifed in performing the fame office for that being who derived its exiftence from himfelf, who is the heir of his fortunes, and the future hope of his country. Nor have phyfidans themfelves been fufHciently attentive to the management of children: this has been generally confidered as the foie ^province of old women, while men of the firft charader in phyfic have refufed to viflt infants even when Tick. Such condud in the faculty has not only caufed this branch of medicine to be negleded, but has alfo encouraged the other fex to affume an abfolute title *© prefcribfc for children in the molt dangerous dif-