On teaching infants "the right use of their hands": Advice and reassurance from Mary Palmer Tyler's The Maternal Physician (1811).
For parents anxious "lest their children should be left-handed", the American author Mary Palmer Tyler offered advice and reassurance in her 1811 child-care manual The Maternal Physician. This article provides a brief biography of Tyler and the text of her remarks, along with notes on the text and the author's sources.
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Lauren Julius
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Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. HARRISL@msu.edu
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