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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 ; with occasional notes and a compendium of the diseases of infancts by Dr. John Vaughan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Breastfeeding.
- Child rearing.
- Children--Diseases.
- Children.
- Infants--Diseases.
- Infants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xii, 224 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington : Printed and sold by Peter Brynberg, 1801.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 70221.D
- First printed in London in 1767, this popular book was particularly concerned with breast feeding as key to the development of healthy children.
- 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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