THE MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORAL. INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF PARENTS. BY ANDREW COMBE, M.D., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH, AND ONE OF THE Ninth Edition. REVISED AND EDITED BY SIR JAMES CLARK, BART., M.D., F.R.S., PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN, & HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT. EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN AND STEWART. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., LONDON. MADAM, ΤΟ HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. In graciously accepting the Dedication of the present Revised Edition of Dr Combe's valuable work, your Majesty has given an additional proof of the interest you are known to take in the progress of Sanitary Science. And assuredly to no one could a work, having for its object the preservation of Infant Life, and the improvement of the Moral Training and Instruction of the young, be more appropriately dedicated than to your Majesty, whose management of your own family affords a bright example to parents, and a living testimony of the wisdom of being guided, in the treatment of their offspring, by the Laws of Health, so clearly indicated by the Creator. I have the honour to subscribe myself, Your Majesty's faithful and dutiful subject, JAMES CLARK. THE STUDY OF INFANCY, CONSIDERED EVEN AS AN ELEMENT IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MAN, ABOUNDS IN INTEREST, AND IS FERTILE IN TRUTHS OF THE HIGHEST PRACTICAL VALUE AND IMPORTANCE.-COMBE. INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR. SEVERAL considerations induced me to undertake the pleasant task of revising and editing Dr Combe's valuable Treatise on the Management of Infancy. The subject is one in which I feel a deep interest, and to which I have given much attention during my professional life; a long and intimate friendship also with the enlightened Author afforded me frequent opportunities of discussing with him the subjects treated of in the following pages. I thus became well acquainted with his opinions on the causes of the frightful mortality which occurs during the earlier periods of life; and I shared with him the conviction, that the hope of diminishing the evil rested entirely on our being able to enlighten parents and the public generally on the causes of such mortality, and to instruct them in the means of its |