Author: Servais, F. X. J. (François Xavier Joseph).
Title: Hygiène de l'enfance, guide et manuel des mères de famille.
Description: Bruxelles, Librairie Encyclopédique de Perichon, 1853. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. xi, xxxii, 302. plus lithograph portrait of Philippe Joseph van Custem as frontispiece, light dampmark on verso; and 13 tinted lithograph plates, all protected with facing tissue guards. Half-title present. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary handsome red full calf, sides gilt ruled, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt decorated and lettered compartments, gilt tooled binding edges, all bookblock edges gilt, silken endpapers, cloth inner hinges, 2 silken markers, one red and one white; some rubbing to binding, some soiling to endpapers. Plates foxed due to paper quality, else a handsome copy in a very good condition. ~ Second edition, enlarged, "plus complète que la première" to comprise a manual. First published in 1850 as "Hygiène de l'Enfance ou Guide des Mères de Famille". On baby and child care, on the prevention of infant and child mortality, on breast feeding, illness and vaccination, early puberty, etc. The accompanying plates are very pleasant. Now merely charming, Servais' work, influenced by Philippe Joseph van Custem (1768-1845), received great acclaim at the time and served as, indeed, a guide and a manual, not unlike Dr. Spocks' some generations later. I-5 OUT .

Keywords: CHILDREN EDUCATION TOYS NURSERY FAMILY PARENTHOOD MATERNITY BABY NEWBORN NOISBN


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