Management and diseases of infants, under the influence of the climate of India : being instructions to mothers and parents, in situations where medical aid is not to be obtained, and a guide to medical men, inexperienced in the nursery and the treatment of tropical infantile disease. Illustrated by coloured plates / by Frederick Corbyn.
Frederick Corbyn's 1828 Calcutta manual on infant care and tropical childhood illness, written for mothers in stations without a doctor and for physicians new to the nursery. Engraved and hand-coloured plates show numbered figures: dissected abdomen and intestines, brain in sagittal and opened-skull views, spinal cord with nerve branches, arterial and lymphatic trees, and red rashes stippled across a limb.
