Chavasse's advice to a wife : on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling.

  • Q52148313
Date:
[1898?]
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Credit: Chavasse's advice to a wife : on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Shivering during labour, 203. Shoes, frequent change of, a remedy for cold feet, 16. “ Show,” a sign of labour, 179, 202. Shower-bath inadmissible in pregnancy, 127, 177. Sick pregnancies, 161. Sickness during labour, 204. Silk stockings for cold feet, 16. Singing beneficial during preg- nancy, 69. Sitting over fire, evil'effects of, 12, 13. Sitz-bath, 27; in pregnancy, 127, 167, 168 ; tepid salt and water, for irritation of ex- ternal parts in pregnancy, 168-169. Skin, action of, in hot and cold weather, 30. Sleep for young wife, 57-59 ; in pregnancy, 139-141; value of, immediately after labour, 238 ; in lying-in room, 198. Sleepiness, a sign of pregnancy, 123. Sleeplessness of pregnant females, 140. Slipper bed-pan, 239, 244. Soap plaster, for drying-up milk, 293 ; for inflamed breast, 297. “ Soon well—long ill,” 246. Spasms of the stomach, 103. Spurious labour pains, 178- 180. Stays, mischief caused by tight, 65, 126, 162, 217, 274, 279, 281. Sterilised drinking water, 135. Sterility. See Barrenness. Still-born infant, 230. Stimulants, an age of, 47; abuse of, 23, 38, 40, 98, 267; in menstruation, 98 ; during the change of life, 115 ; in pregnancy, 136; in labour, 222. Stockings, elastic silk, for varicose veins, 126. “ Stomach labour,” 241. Stomach functions, 35, 270; spasms of, 103. Stout, fattening properties of, 36. Suckling, 254; aperients during, 285-290 ; ailments, 274-285 ; clothing of nursing mother, 263; disease resulting from neglecting, 257 ; when men- struating, 96, 273, 295 ; fresh air and exercise necessary, 268 ; position of mother, 268 ; occupation, 271-273; faint- ness during, 285; remedies for costiveness, 286; influ- ence on child-bearing, 255; stimulants injurious, 267; stated times for, 261-263, 275; the temper in, 269; when pregnant, 297. Sunshine hi rooms, 64. Supper, an easily digested, 35. Swimming, 14. Swollen legs in pregnancy, 126, 154-5. Teat, indiarubber, and shield, 274. Teeth, importance of attention to, 37 ; frequently decay in pregnancy, 158. Tepid baths in pregnancy, 127. Tetanus, simulated in hysteria, 104. Thinness and digestion, 35; diet for, 36. Tidman’s sea-salt, 28. Tight-lacing, caution against, 65 ; constipation caused by, 66 ; ill effects m pregnancy, 65, 126. Toil and health, 272. Tongue-tied baby, 278. Toothache in pregnancy, 124, 156 ; remedies for, 156. Tooth extraction, the danger of, in pregnancy, 156- Total abstainers, 50. Triplets, 25. “Trying a pain,” 207, 220. A.W. x