The Physical Training of Children

Pye Henry Chavasse and Frank Horace Getchell

Pye Henry Chavasse begins at the beginning: ablution, clothing, diet, vaccination, and dentition, the physical training of children from infancy upward in question and answer. The Victorian nursery's standard medical companion, consulted by anxious parents for decades. Childhood health advice as an entire era practiced it. Raise a Victorian baby, hypothetically.