Advice to Mothers on the Treatment of Infants: With Directions for Self-Management Before, During, and After Pregnancy. Addressed to Mothers and Nurses by Mrs. Barwell. Revised, Enlarged, and Adapted to Habits and Climate in the United States by a Physician of New York Under the Approval and Recommendation of Valentine Mott, M.D.

Philadelplhia: J. and J. L. Gihon, 1850. Revised, enlarged.

SCARCE LITTLE BOOK ORIGINALLY BY AN ENGLISH MUSICIAN, REVISED AND ENDORSED BY NEW YORK PHYSICIANS FOR AMERICAN MOTHERS.

7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding with blindstamped decorative rulings to cover, gilt title to cover, xi, 148 pp. Spine ends chipped, light browning to pages, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.

LOUISA MARY BARWELL (1800-1885) was known as a talented musician with a fine voice, who married John Barwell, a wine merchant, at Norwich, England. She developed a knowledge of the physical and mental state of young children. The American edition offered here, "adapted to habits and climate in the United States," was authored "by a physician of New York," and endorsed by Dr. Valentine Mott, who states that, "I feel great pleasure in recommending it, and I think I can do it with confidence."

VALENTINE MOTT (1785-1865) graduated at Columbia College, studied under Sir Astley Cooper in London, and was appointed professor of surgery in Columbia College in 1809. From 1811 to 1834 he was in very extensive practice as a surgeon, having performed 1000 amputations and 165 lithotomies. After spending seven years in Europe (1834-1841) Mott returned to New York where he was on the founding faculty of the university medical college of New York, now New York University School of Medicine. In 1849, he was elected President of the New York Academy of Medicine.