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Historical Bibliography Updated: January 8, 2020

The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Publication Details

Boston, MA: Charles J. Hendee, 1837 CE.

Child was was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#10411
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/12604
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-family-nurse-

Geographic Context

Publication place: Boston, MA