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Excerpt from An Essay Upon Nursing, and the Management of Children: From Their Birth to Three Years of Age
A z hypohypothetical reafonings to entertain very wild conceits', in which they were greatly bewil dered themfelves, and milled others to believe, I know-not what firange unaccountable pow ers in certain herbs, roots, and drugs; and alfo in fome fuperfiitious practices and cere monies; for all which notions, there being no real foundation in nature, they ought to be looked upon as the elteé'ts of ignorance, or the artifices of defigning (luacks; who found their account, by pretending: to great know ledge in thefe occult qualities,'and impoling upon the credulous, The Art of Phyfick has been much improved within this laft century; by obfervin'g and following nature more clofe ly, many ufeful difcoveries have been made, which help us to account for things in a na tural way, that before fcemed myfierious, and magical; and which have confequently made the practice of it more conformable to reafon and good fenfe, This being the cafe, there is great room to fear, that thofe Nurfes who yet 'retain many of thefe traditional prejudices, arc capitally mifiaken in their management of 'children in general, and fancying that matute has left a great deal to their {kill and contri vance, often do much harm, - where they intend to do good. This I {hall endeavour to con Vince them, by fhewing, how I think chil dren may be cloathed, fed, 'and managed with much lefs trouble to their Nurfes, and infi nitely greater cafe and comfort to the little ones.
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