Second Edition, Revised. 



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The Care of Infants 



A Manual for Mothers and Nurses. 



BY 



SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE, M.D., 



Member of the Irish College of Physicians ; late Dean of the Edinburgh 



School of Medicine for Women ; Lecturer on Midwifery for 



the University of Edinburgh ; late Senior Physician 



to the Edinburgh Hospital for Women 



and Children. 



Opinions of the Press and of Medical Men on the 



First Edition. 



Athenceum. — "We can most strongly recommend Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake's 

 manual ; it is an excellent work, and we should like to see a copy in every 

 nursery." 



The Literary World. — "Her directions are eminently practical — the book 

 should obtain a wide circulation." 



Nonconformist.—" A very valuable little manual." 



Scotsman. — "An excellent little practical manual — a book which ought to 

 have a place in every household." 



Medical Press.— "Deserves to be read with care by young mothers, who will 

 find much in it to assist them to rear strong and healthy offspring." 



From Dr. G. W. Balfour, LL.D. — "I have to thank you for your excellent 

 little book, every word of which I have read with great pleasure." 



From Dr. Symes Thompson. — "Let me thank you for your book on the care 

 of infants, which is exactly what has long been wanted." 



From Sir Thomas Barlow, M.D. — "I consider it most sensible, and that it 

 ought to be of great use." 



From the late Dr. King Chambers. — "I am much obliged to you for a copy 

 of your little volume. It is quite an incarnation of educated common sense." 



From the late Dr. Octauius Sturges. — " I am charmed with your book about 

 the infants, and hope it will spread far and wide for the lighting up of a very 

 dark place." 



