Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1092

WILLIAM MOSS (fl. 1790) An essay on the management and feeding of infants. Published by Benjamin Johnson 1808 104 pp. 19.6 cm.

Moss, surgeon to the Liverpool Lying-in Charity, had a great interest in the diseases of children and was an active participant in Liverpool's Inoculation Society which was founded in 1781 to inoculate the poor against smallpox. The first part of the present work is an abridgment of Moss' Essay on the management and nursing of children, first published in London in 1781. In the book he concentrates primarily on the feeding of infants and gives intelligent, well-reasoned arguments for the instructions and methods he espouses. The second and third parts of the book deal with vaccination and were separately published in Philadelphia in 1806 and 1807.

Cited references: Austin 1346; Waller 6699

In memory of Robert D. Gauchat