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Berlin:: [s.n.], 1796., 1796. 19 cm. Small 8vo. xvi, 462 pp. Dedicated to Johann Heinrich Fischer. Original plain paper over boards, later paper spine tag; rubbed. Some offsetting of ink from an ownership inscription. Very good copy. This is a treatise on the diseases of children and their physical education. It contains sixteen chapters. The work treats nutrition, care of the newborn and infant, wet-nursing, breastfeeding, weaning and the foundling hospital. One section details twenty-six health issues or diseases of infants (including sores, limping, bowed legs, teething, redness, coughing, etc.). There are two issues of this book from 1794 and 1796. We have the 1796 issue, which has a longer pagination and wherein the publisher’s name is not given - noting that H.A. Rottmann was publisher of the first issue of 1794. / Abt-Garrison has nothing good to say about this author of St. Gall, Switzerland. ?. . . a vain, disputatious and somewhat superficial writer, who was one of the opponents of the…
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