The Maternal Physician: A Treatise on the Nature and Management of Infants, from the Birth Until Two Years Old; Being the Result of Sixteen Years' Experience in the Nursery; Illustrated by Extracts from the Most Approved Medical Authors (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Maternal Physician: A Treatise on the Nature and Management of Infants, From the Birth Until Two Years Old; Being the Result of Sixteen Years' Experience in the Nursery; Illustrated by Extracts From the Most Approved Medical Authors

Some time since, while looking over a file of old newspapers, I cast my eyes upon the obituaries, and was forcibly impressed with the great proportion of children who are yearly consigned to the relentless grave under the age of two years. I revolved in my mind why it was so, and could not avoid concluding that it must be in a great measure occasioned by some gross mis management in mothers or nurses, or per haps in both. Involuntarily I looked around upon my own children, and my heart swelled with gratitude to heaven for hither to averting the shafts of the fell destroyer from them, and permitting the roses of health to bloom on their cheeks with almost uninterrupted continuity.

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