The female monitor, consisting of a series of letters to married women on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D. ; with occasional notes and a compendium of the diseases of infants / by Dr. John Vaughan.

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.
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1801-[02]
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The female monitor, consisting of a series of letters to married women on nursing and the management of children / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D. ; with occasional notes and a compendium of the diseases of infants / by Dr. John Vaughan. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children

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Wilmington [Del.] : Printed and sold by Peter Brynberg, 1801-[02]

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224 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 232-289 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm (12mo)

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The fifteen letters by Smith were originally published earlier under title: Letters to married women, on nursing and management of children
"Letters to a lady" (p. [229-290]) signed on p. 289: John Vaughan. September 10th, 1802. These five letters came "to the hands of the publisher since the preceding part of the Monitor was printed off, and a few copies circulated."
Film 633 reel 88 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 88, no. 1759).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1759
Shaw & Shoemaker 1331

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1956. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. duplicate negative made from deteriorating acetate camera master

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