| Description Of Item | Notes from or on: English Saga 1840-1940 by Arthur Bryant; The History of Infant Feeding from Elizabethan Times by David Forsyth; extracts from George Armstrong's book on infant feeding; Sibbald on duration of breast feeding; Queen Margaret of Scotland and the feeding of orphans; William Cadogan's essay; Wilson's aphorisms; The Infant Welfare Movement in the 18th century by E Caulfield; Elizabethan Astrological Medicine by Carroll Camden; On Quacks and Quackery in 17th century England by Herbert Silvette; Kipling and Culpepper; Popular Medical Knowledge in 14th Century English Literature by Ida B Jones; Touchpieces and the Cure of the King's Evil by D'Arcy Power; John Jones; Sir Thomas Elyot; Roger Axham; The Kirk's Care of the Poor by J M McPherson; [Herman] Boerhaave Teacher of All Europe; Trends and Fashions in medicine by Dr Guthrie; Chance and Medical Discoveries; excerpts from histories of Newcastle, Durham and Northumberland; avoidance of scarring in smallpox; witches and witchcraft; Dick Turpin and the resurrectionists; foster child murder; milestones in the development of evaporated milk; the future of preventive medicine; a regimen of health; some consequences of an increased life-span. From the back are note on baby farming and 'Heart Block: Its History'. Indexed. |