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SIR CHARLES LOCOCK, BART,

D.C.L., F.R.S.,

FIRST PHYSICIAN-ACCOUCHEUR TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

DEAR SIR CHARLES,

Your kind and flattering approval of this little Book, and your valuable suggestions for its improvement, demand my warmest gratitude and acknowledgments, and have stimulated me to renewed exertions to make it still more complete and useful, and thus more worthy of your approbation.

You have greatly added to my obligation, by allowing me to indicate those passages of the work that you considered required correction, addition, and improvement. On refer ence to these pages, it will be at once perceived how greatly I am indebted to you, and how much I have profited by your valuable advice.

I have the honour to remain,

DEAR SIR CHARLES,

Your faithful and obliged servant,

PYE HENRY CHAVASSE.

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PREFACE.

THIS Book has been translated into French, into German, into Polish, and into Tamil (one of the languages of India); it has been extensively published in America; and is wellknown wherever the English language is spoken.

The Twelfth Edition-consisting of twenty thousand copies-being exhausted in less than three years, the THIR TEENTH EDITION is now published.

One or two fresh questions have been asked and answered, and two or three new paragraphs have been added.

PYE HENRY CHAVASSE.

214 HAGLEY ROAD, EDGBASTON,

BIRMINGHAM, June, 1878.

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ADVICE TO A MOTHER.

PART I.-INFANCY.

Infant and suckling.-1. SAMUEL

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.-BYRON.
Man's breathing Miniature !-COLERIDGE.

PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION.

1. I wish to consult you on many subjects appertaining to the management and the care of children will you favour me with your advice and counsel?

I shall be happy to accede to your request, and to give you the fruits of my experience in the clearest manner I am able, and in the simplest language I can command-freed from all technicalities. I will endeavour to guide you in the management of the health of your offspring;-I will describe to you the symptoms of the diseases of children;-I will warn you of approaching danger, in order that you may promptly apply for medical assistance before disease has gained too firm a footing;-I will give you the treatment on the moment of some of their more pressing illnesses-when medical aid cannot quickly be procured, and where delay may be death;—I will instruct you, in case of accidents, on the immediate employment of remedies--where procrastination may be dangerous;-I will tell you how a sick child should be nursed, and how a sick-room ought to be managed;—I will use my best energy to banish injurious practices from the nursery ;--I will treat of the means to prevent disease where it be possible ;

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