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Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children

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Holistic Healing

Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children

Pye Henry Chavasse

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Pye Henry Chavasse answered the anxious questions of new mothers one by one, from the navel cord to boyhood and girlhood. His famous conversational manual covers ablution, feeding, rupture and the small crises of infancy in reassuring plain speech. A bestselling window into Victorian childrearing and domestic care. See how earlier generations raised their children.

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51 chapters

  1. 1ADVICE TO A MOTHER
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4PART I—INFANCY.
  5. 5PART II—CHILDHOOD
  6. 6PART III—BOYHOOD AND GIRLHOOD
  7. 7ADVICE TO A MOTHER.
  8. 8PART I.—INFANCY
  9. 9PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION
  10. 10ABLUTION
  11. 11MANAGEMENT OF THE NAVEL.
  12. 12NAVEL RUPTURE—GROIN RUPTURE.
  13. 13CLOTHING.
  14. 14DIET
  15. 15VACCINATION AND RE-VACCINATION.
  16. 16DENTITION
  17. 17EXERCISE.
  18. 18SLEEP

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