title: On teaching infants "the right use of their hands": Advice and reassurance from Mary Palmer Tyler's The Maternal Physician (1811).
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. HARRISL@msu.edu
authors.forename: Lauren Julius
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013663:Teaching / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods