PEDIATRICS Vol. 47 No. 5 May 1971, pp. 947
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BOOK OF ACCIDENTS (1830)

Excerpt XI: Riding a Wild Horse

Thomas E. Cone Jr. M.D.

In nineteenth century America, falls from horses must have been a common cause of accidental death of children because so many parents' manuals of the period contained warnings to keep children away from horses. The lesson below, written for children in 1830, vividly describes what may happen to a little boy who tries to ride his father's horse.1

An amusing proverb occasionally included in these warnings was: "It is a good horse that never stumbles and a good wife that never grumbles."2