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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1644: Hufeland on Infants
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Episode: 1644 An 18th-century doctor helps great-grandmother raise grandpa. Today, we raise a nineteenth-century child.
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Today we raise a 19th century child. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
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This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF, Houston. Today we raise a 19th century child. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. An odd little book emerged from between the cracks in a bookcase at home. It's a 130-page instruction manual for mothers of newborn babies.
It was published in Switzerland in 1844. While the German is simple, it's written in the hard-to-read old German typeface. This seems to have been the book that my great grandmother used in Zurich to raise my infant grandfather. The author is given as Dr. Christoph Wilhelm Houghland, born in Saxony in 1762.
Houghland is hardly known today, but he was one of the great European doctors of his age. He founded a noted Journal of Medicine and Surgery and a teaching hospital in Berlin. He was an early student of the new practice of vaccination. This copy of the book has been modified by an anonymous author from a Houghland book that had been in print for almost half a century.
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