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

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.
Date:
1792
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    therefore is it to be wifhed that fuch a fa- tality could be prevented !—It may be pre- vented. Is it not affecting, that fo many be- ings, juft entering into life, mould be fo untimely cut off, to the detriment of fociety, and the affliction of their weeping mothers ? It is, truly, a fubjecl of commiferation, a fcene which draws a filent tear from the eye of humanity, and pierces the wounded bofoms of afflicted parents.—Above three fourths of thefe little innocents fall a fa- crifice under two years old. It is well known, that the thrum and watery gripes generally terminate their exiftence in the early months; and, if they furvive thefe maladies, the time of teething too fre- quently brings on a fatal cataftrophe. Could, we but conquer the prejudices of the times, and abolifh unnatural and abfurd