This book has arisen from a want felt in the author's own practice, as a monitor to young wives, a guide to young mothers, and an assistant to the family physician. It deals skillfully, sensibly and delicately with the perplexities of married life, giving information which women must have, either in conversation with physicians or from such a source as this. Plain and intelligible, but without offence to the most fastidious taste, the style of this book must commend it to careful perusal. It treats of the needs, dangers, and alleviations of the holy duties of maternity, and gives extended, detailed instructions for the care and medical treatment of infants and children throughout all the perils of early life.
"The author deserves great credit for his labor, and the book merits an extensive circulation."—U.S. Medical and Surgical Journal (Chicago).
"We hail the appearance of this work with true pleasure. It is dictated by a pure and liberal spirit, and will be a real boon to many a young mother."—American Medical Observer (Detroit.)
"There are few intelligent mothers who will not be benefited by reading and keeping by them for frequent counsel a volume so rich in valuable suggestions. With its tables, prescriptions, and indexes at the end, this book ought to do much good."—Hearth and Home.
27 Park Place, New York.
Transcriber's Notes
Minor punctuation typos have been silently corrected.
Page [50]: Changed "acquaintainces" to "acquaintances."
(Orig: menagerie of our very miscellaneous acquaintainces!)
Page [63]: Changed "Methusaleh" to "Methuselah."
(Orig: but they are old as Methusaleh.)
Page [121]: Retained "fluttered," but possible typo for "flustered."
(Orig: Poor Mrs. Van Arsdel was somewhat fluttered by this alarming)
Page [136]: Retained "indeeed," (she may be stretching out word for
emphasis) but it's possibly a typo for "indeed."
(Orig: "Like him! Indeeed I don't.)
Page [182]: Changed "Campcell" to "Campbell."
(Orig: flesh and spirit. Dr. Campcell, a broad-shouldered,)
Page [190]: Changed "gaity" to "gaiety."
(Orig: in the gaity of her heart, that evening.)
Page [223]: Changed "convalesence" to "convalescence."
(Orig: in different stages of convalesence were)
Page [246]: Changed "blurr" to "blur."
(Orig: only one dark, confused blurr,)
Page [299]: Changed "Eleusinean" to "Eleusinian."
(Orig: some special Eleusinian mysteries)
Page [306]: Changed "perculiar" to "peculiar."
(Orig: Bolton professes a perculiar skill in an omelette;)
Page [312]: Changed "slelect" to "select."
(Orig: slelect associations and good behavior)
Page [335]: Changed "Betsy" to "Betsey."
(Orig: strong mind," said little Mrs. Betsy in a tone of awe;)
Page [337]: Changed "coverved" to "covered."
(Orig: I dare say he's coverved with fleas.)
Page [361]: Changed "audirons" to "andirons."
(Orig: winking and blinking roguishly at the brass audirons,)
Page [375]: Changed "expeririences" to "experiences."
(Orig: the strangest feelings and experi- [new line] riences.)
Page [377]: Changed "Methhodist" to "Methodist."
(Orig: words of an old Methhodist hymn;)
Page [392]: Changed "expolres" to "explores."
(Orig: so many secrets, who expolres so many cabals,)
Page [394]: Changed "gentlemen's" to "gentleman's."
(Orig: "Friendship is a humbug," was that young gentlemen's mental)
Page [434]: Changed "ard" to "and."
(Orig: prove by her devotion ard obedience)