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Title The Female Monitor, Consisting of a Series of Letters to Married Women on Nursing and the Management of Children … With Occasional Notes
Reference 70221.D
Collection James Rush
Date 1801
Author Smith, Hugh
Publisher / Printer / Lithographer Brynberg, Peter
Place of Creation Wilmington, Delaware
Description First printed in London in 1767, this popular book was particularly concerned with breast feeding as key to the development of healthy children.
Document Type Printed Book
Theme(s) Women's Health; Children's Health
Keywords children, pregnancy, childbirth, disease, nourishment, breastfeeding
Note Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.