Advice to a wife on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labor and suckling : with and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1868
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Credit: Advice to a wife on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labor and suckling : with and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    brane over his mouth;* and that his face be not buried in the clothes. Any mucus about the mouth of the babe ought, with a soft napkin, to be wiped away, or it might impede the breathing. 546. Every infant, the moment he comes into the world, ought to cry; if he does not naturally, he should be made to do so by smacking his buttocks until he does cry. He will then be safe: We came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time we smell the air We waul and cry.f 547. If the doctor has not arrived, cheerfulness, quiet- ness, and presence of mind must be observed by all around; otherwise, the patient may become excited and alarmed, and dangerous consequences might ensue. 548. If the infant should be born apparently dead, a few smart blows must be given on the buttocks and on the back; a smelling-bottle ought to be applied to the * As a rule, the waters break just before the head is born, then there is no fear of a membrane covering the mouth, as the head passes through the ruptured membrane. In other instances, the membrane does not hurst before the expulsion of the head of the foetus [child] externally, which it covers, and in such cases the infant is said by nurses to he born with a caul, and this is advertised in the London newspapers in our day, and sold at a high price by midwives, as it is super- stitiously supposed to prevent shipwreck.—Ryan's Manual of Midwifery. f Shakspeare.