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ADVICE TO A MOTHER
ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HER CHILDREN AND ON THE TREATMENT ON THE MOMENT OF SOME OF THEIR MORE PRESSING ILLNESSES AND ACCIDENTS
BY
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, FELLOW OF THE OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, BIRMINGHAM.
"Lo, children and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord."
PREFACE.
This Book has been translated into French, into German, into Polish, and into Tamil (one of the languages of India); it has been extensively published in America; and is well-known wherever the English language is spoken.
The Twelfth Edition--consisting of twenty thousand copies--being exhausted in less than three years, the THIRTEENTH EDITION is now published.
One or two fresh questions have been asked and answered, and two or three new paragraphs have I been added.
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE.
214, HAGLEY ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, June, 1878.
CONTENTS.
PART I--INFANCY.
PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION ABLUTION MANAGEMENT OF THE NAVEL NAVEL RUPTURE--GROIN RUPTURE CLOTHING DIET VACCINATION AND RE-VACCINATION DENTITION EXERCISE SLEEP THE BLADDER AND THE BOWELS AILMENTS, DISEASE, ETC. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON INFANCY
PART II--CHILDHOOD
ABLUTION CLOTHING DIET THE NURSERY EXERCISE AMUSEMENTS EDUCATIO
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