The Young Mother's Assistant, or a Practical Guide for the Prevention and Treatment of the Diseases of Infants and Children
- SIGNED Full leather binding
- London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1822
London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1822. Second edition.
1822 SCARCE MANUAL ON CHILDHOOD DISEASES BY IRISH PHYSICIAN FOR USE BY PARENTS.
7 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, red leather label wiht gilt title to spine, contemporary ink signature front paste-down, i-xvi, 176 pp, [8]. Corner tips worn, 1" abrasion top front joint, light foxing to endpapers, pages clean and unmarked. Good+ in custom archival mylar cover. CONCLUDING SENTENCE: "I have also endeavoured to impress on my readers this truth, that a recourse to medicine, in proportion as it is repugnant to the operations of nature, so will its influence be the more destructive to the tender frame and constitution of children; and, I would finally urge this unerring maxim, that, as the great sources of disease in children are neglect, mismanagement, or accident; so may we be sure that caution is superior to skill, and prevention better than cure."
REVIEW IN Pediatrics, T. E. C., Jr. Pediatrics (1969) 44 (4): 589. How to feed the infant when breast milk was not available, according to Sir Arthur Clarke, M.D., writing in 1828. "One of the best known books written for mothers in the early part of the nineteenth century was Sir Arthur Clark's: The Young Mother's Assistant; or a Practical Guide for the Prevention and Treatment of the Diseases of Infants and Children, pp 23-25."
SIR ARTHUR CLARKE (1773-1857) Was for many years Physician to the Bank of Ireland and to the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In his practice he devoted considerable attention to phthisis, and was the author of several much-read works on this subject. He founded, or helped to found, several hospitals such as the Dublin Fever Hospital, also a hospital after the pattern of the French maisons de santé, and in which were public baths. He was knighted by the Lord-Lieutenant on March 7th, 1811.
1822 SCARCE MANUAL ON CHILDHOOD DISEASES BY IRISH PHYSICIAN FOR USE BY PARENTS.
7 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, red leather label wiht gilt title to spine, contemporary ink signature front paste-down, i-xvi, 176 pp, [8]. Corner tips worn, 1" abrasion top front joint, light foxing to endpapers, pages clean and unmarked. Good+ in custom archival mylar cover. CONCLUDING SENTENCE: "I have also endeavoured to impress on my readers this truth, that a recourse to medicine, in proportion as it is repugnant to the operations of nature, so will its influence be the more destructive to the tender frame and constitution of children; and, I would finally urge this unerring maxim, that, as the great sources of disease in children are neglect, mismanagement, or accident; so may we be sure that caution is superior to skill, and prevention better than cure."
REVIEW IN Pediatrics, T. E. C., Jr. Pediatrics (1969) 44 (4): 589. How to feed the infant when breast milk was not available, according to Sir Arthur Clarke, M.D., writing in 1828. "One of the best known books written for mothers in the early part of the nineteenth century was Sir Arthur Clark's: The Young Mother's Assistant; or a Practical Guide for the Prevention and Treatment of the Diseases of Infants and Children, pp 23-25."
SIR ARTHUR CLARKE (1773-1857) Was for many years Physician to the Bank of Ireland and to the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In his practice he devoted considerable attention to phthisis, and was the author of several much-read works on this subject. He founded, or helped to found, several hospitals such as the Dublin Fever Hospital, also a hospital after the pattern of the French maisons de santé, and in which were public baths. He was knighted by the Lord-Lieutenant on March 7th, 1811.