A treatise on the diseases of children ; with directions for the management of infants.

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children ; with directions for the management of infants. 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 OF THE AUTHOR. TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. The repeated and indulgent reception of former attempts to investigate the Diseases of Children, has induced the author successively to extend his original plan. And lie hopes he may have so far succeeded, as to present the readers of this seventh impression with an ample and distinct account of them. Besides something new in the form of the work, it contains several diseases never noticed before, as well as further im- provements in the arrangement and description of others ; to- gether with complete directions for the management of the Nursery, to which is prefixed a dissertation on the nature and properties of human milk, the result of repeated ex- periments ; forming, it is presumed, a suitable introduction to that part of the work.* If any thing at all important has been overlooked, it has arisen as well from the very recent occurrence of some new disease, as from a possible want of peculiar opportunities of information, which the writings or practice of others may, in * The Dissertation on the Nature and Properties of the Human Milk is' now omitted for the reasons assigned in the Editor’s Preface.—S. M.