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

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1803
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. re prefervation of the lives of in- fants was the firft fubject I wrote upon at the opening of my medical career; after forty years practice, I now refume it. with increafed zeal and plea- fure,—zeal, prompted by a juft fenfe of its importance,—and_ pleafure, arifing from the hope of its beneficial and laft- ing effects. I am fure of being liftened to with kind attention by the tender and out to her the certain means of preferv- ing her own health, of fecuring the attachment of the man fhe holds dear, and of promoting the health, ftrength, and beauty of her offspring. She will not take alarm at the idea of medical advice, when I tell her that my object is to enable her to do without medicine, and to obtain every defirable end with- | B out