ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
infant, and who feels all her cares amply repaid byits growth and activity. No subsequent endeavourscan remedy or correct the evils occasioned by amother's negligence; and the skill of the physician isexerted in vain to mend what she, through ignoranceor inattention, may have unfortunately marred.
" One of the objects I have in view is, to relievemothers from groundless fears; to teach them how toprevent diseases that are almost always the conse-quences of mismanagement; to inspire them with thefullest confidence in proper nursing, and with strongprejudices against the use of medicines, which domischief twenty times for once that they do .good."
An attachment to quackery unfortunately distin-guishes most of the female sex; " but quackery in thenursery," says Dr. Buchan, " is not the only error Ishall endeavour to undeceive mothers in. The want bfproper instructions, at an early period of life, betraysthem into a variety of fatal mistakes respecting theirown health, as well as that of their children. Thesemistakes, and the means of rectifying them, form a con-siderable part of the following work. The language isadapted to every capacity, it being of consequence thatevery woman should understand it; and the rules laiddown are practicable ia every condition, except that ofcheerless poverty. With the hope of removing this ex-ception, I shall point out the most effectual method ofassisting women so circumstanced; and I do not knowany manner in which humanity, charity,and patriotism,can be more laudably exerted, or even a part of thepublic revenue more usefully employed, than in ena-bling mothers to bring up a healthy and hardy race ofmen,fit to earn their livelihood by useful employments,and to defend their country in the hour of danger!"
The danger of female fashions. —" The woman,"says the Doctor, " who feels a laudable wish to lookwell, and to be so in reality, must place no confidencein the silly doctrines, or the deceitful arts, of fashion.She must consult nature and reason, and seek forbeauty in the temple of health; if she looks for itelsewhere, she will experience the most mortifying