A TREATISE

ON THE

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORAL

MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY:

BEING

A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF INFANT
TRAINING, FOR THE USE OF PARENTS.

BY

ANDREW COMBE, M.D.,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH; ONE
OF THE PHYSICIANS IN ORDINARY IN SCOTLAND TO THE QUEEN;
AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL AND
ROYAL SOCIETY OF PHYSICIANS IN VIENNA.

SIXTH EDITION,

REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

EDINBURGH:

MACLACHLAN, STEWART, & CO.;

AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

MDCCCXLVII.

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of a personal and the other dedicate this treatise to you. I affords me of publicly expressShom I have long and intimately stant and unreserved intercourse,

trying circumstances, animated by

est and the most benevolent disposi

there is perhaps no one to whom I could ork intended to call attention to that comhost important, field of medical inquiry,

FELLOW OF THE Benic treatment of man,-as to you, who have with great ability and success. For many years, en a deep and active interest in the improvement a, and in elevating the character, extending the ng the usefulness of the profession; but, acting on es which I have endeavoured to enforce, you have, in orks on Climate and Consumption, rendered no small e, by your instructive exposition of the manner in which the lungs so often, and so insidiously, originates in appacauses connected with disregard of the ordinary laws of a have further shewn, that, when medicine shall be cultimore liberal and comprehensive spirit, and its principles be as furnishing the only solid foundation for a proper system il, moral, and intellectual education, it will become one of its es, and, I may add, one of its greatest privileges, to be instruot more in the prevention of disease and suffering than in tributing to the general happiness and permanent advancee human race.

8 regards the special subject of the present volume, you were in your treatise on Consumption, to insist strongly on adopting a proper system of management from the ent of infant existence, as the only effectual means

A TREATISE

ON THE

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORAL

MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY:

BEING

A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF INFANT TRAINING, FOR THE USE OF PARENTS.

BY

ANDREW COMBE, M.D.,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH; ONE
OF THE PHYSICIANS IN ORDINARY IN SCOTLAND TO THE QUEEN;
AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL AND
ROYAL SOCIETY OF PHYSICIANS IN VIENNA.

SIXTH EDITION,

REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

EDINBURGH:

MACLACHLAN, STEWART, & CO.;

AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

MDCCCXLVII.