LADIES' MEDICAL FRIEND.

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DR. HAMILTON KITTOE,

SURGEON-ACCOUCHEUR,

May be consulted on all Female Maladies, at his Residence, 2, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London.

*At Home from Ten till One o'clock.

THE

LADIES' MEDICAL FRIEND,

OR, A GUIDE TO THE

TREATMENT OF THOSE DISEASES INCIDENT TO

FEMALES

FROM AN EARLY PERIOD; WITH

ADVICE TO MOTHERS

ON THE

MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS.

TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN

APPENDIX OF ORIGINAL PRESCRIPTIONS.

BY

W. HAMILTON KITTOE, M.D.,

AUTHOR OF THE NEW CURE FOR ASTHMA AND CONSUMPTION,'
'POCKET BOOK OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE,' &c.

"Of all the stages in that progress which the human being makes
towards maturity, and, by a sad continuance, to decay, none so
surely attracts our attention and sympathy, as that which may be
termed the 'bud of life.""

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1845.

Printed by W. J. WHITE, 79, Great Queen Street,

Lincoln's Inn Fields.

PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

IN presenting the Second Edition of this work to

my

fair readers, I should but ill deserve their confidence, or the patronage they have so liberally bestowed upon my humble efforts, were I not gratefully to acknowledge the obligation.

The extensive benefit this volume has already conferred on the female portion of society, combined with the earnest solicitations of impartial friends, and a numerous circle of patients, has induced me to revise, correct, and augment the contents of the "Ladies' Companion," so that the second edition should possess all the necessary and valuable medical information so essential for the