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An essay on the government of children, under three general heads, viz. health, manners, and education

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An essay on the government of children, under three general heads, viz. health, manners, and education

James Nelson

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A London apothecary in 1753 set down everything parents should know under three plain heads: health, manners and education. James Nelson covers feeding, dress, discipline and schooling with a practitioner's directness, scolding fashionable follies along the way. One of the earliest complete child-rearing manuals in English. See what parenting advice looked like a century before pediatrics existed.

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10 chapters

  1. 1TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Countess of ——
  2. 2ADVERTISEMENT.
  3. 3INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4AN ESSAY ON THE Government of Children.
  5. 5HEALTH.
  6. 6MANNERS.
  7. 7EDUCATION.
  8. 8CONCLUSION.
  9. 9FOOTNOTES
  10. 10ERRATA.
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