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1896

How to Feed Children: A Manual for Mothers, Nurses and Physicians

Joseph J. Gould Jr.

American, 1869 - 1948

The first edition of Louise E. Hogan's book How to Feed Children: A Manual for Mothers, Nurses, and Physicians appeared in 1896; it proved immensely popular, printed in more than ten editions over the next few decades. Its chapters discussed laxative foods, summer diets, broths and soups, fat in food, traveling outfits, and related themes. The publisher, Lippincott, advertised the first edition with this red and white poster.

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Joseph J. Gould Jr., How to Feed Children: A Manual for Mothers, Nurses and Physicians, 1896 | Philadelphia Museum of Art