A grandmother's advice to young mothers on the physical education of children / by Dowager Mountcashell.

  • Moore, Margaret King, 1772-1835.
Date:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A grandmother's advice to young mothers on the physical education of children / by Dowager Mountcashell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    PREFACE. This book is really what it professes to be— the work of an old woman. In fact no other description of person would have been equal to the undertaking; which, humble as it is, re- quired a peculiar combination of circumstances to insure any prospect of success : and as those old women who have-leisure to write, have not always opportunities of obtaining the experi- ence of a nurse, or inclination to study the writings of medical men, the Author has thought it expedient to attempt a work of real utility, for which, perhaps, few others possess the ne- cessary qualifications. Having suckled many children, she has had means of obtaining, from the first source, a species of knowledge which professional men can derive only from the information of women; and by having read with attention most of the best books which have been written on the a 2