Mothercraft, Antenatal and Postnatal

1932

Truby King Collection WS 120 JK8

London: J. & A. Churchill

In 1918, the Mothercraft Training Society was established in London by Truby King and Reginald Charles Jewesbury (1878-1971), who was Head of the Children’s Department at St Thomas’s Hospital, and who became the Society’s Medical Director. Jewesbury was involved in infant and child health and welfare, and his Mothercraft, Antenatal and Postnatal was written with King’s health philosophies in mind. An inscription by Jewesbury in King’s copy reads: ‘This little book is written in admiration of your great work for humanity and in the hope that medical men and women in England will avail themselves more widely of the valuable methods which you have laid down. With kindest wishes and sincere gratitude for all you have taught me.’