An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.

  • William Cooke
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disgusting objects,* and other circum¬ stances likely to evolve any strong emotion. To live temperately; to avoid stimulat¬ ing diet; to regulate the bowels by some unirritating aperient, and to use but mo¬ derate exercise. In the arrangements preparatory to par¬ turition, the objects which present them¬ selves are two-fold. First, to secure effi¬ cient aid; and, secondly, such attendance as may be most likely to keep the mind comfortable, and which shall carry into full effect every means devised at the time of child-birth as well as subsequently. On the former topic it is neither proper nor necessarjr to speak. The selection of per¬ sons to attend, in parturition, is unques¬ tionably momentous. The nearest rela¬ tives are often the most unsuitable. Kind¬ ness and sympathy exhibited with confi¬ dence inspire courage and patience; but * This caution against disgusting objects does not imply, that in consequence of mental impression na¬ tural deformities arise. This unquestionably is a po¬ pular error, and the tales in circulation to justify it are either totally unfounded, or assignable to other causes.
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