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The catechism of health : containing simple and easy rules and directions for the management of children, and observations on the conduct of health in general for the use of schools and families / by William Mavor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child rearing.
- Children--Health and hygiene.
- Children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (iv, 68 pages)).
- Edition:
- With alterations and improvements.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Samuel Wood & Sons, 1819.
- Summary:
- Mavor's juvenile hygiene imparts its lessons in the form of questions and answers. It concludes with an "Address to a Mother" (p.64-68), an exhortation in verse favouring the inoculation of children against smallpox.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 64331.D
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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