A hand-book of nursing for family and general use.

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[1878], ©1878
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Credit: A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Midwife, assisting delivery, 185,193. Milk as food in severe cases, 37. of mother important, 226. of wet-nurse, 230. of cow for infant, 234. '' condensed, how to dilute, 236. Milk fever, 203, 215. Monthly nurse, directions for, 165. care after infection, 166. duties during puer- peral state, 199. conduct toward family, 239. Mother, care of, after childbirth, 204. Mother or child, which has first care, 189. Mother's responsibility for sick child, 128. Mouth, care of, in fever, 66. with infants, 217, 225. Moving patients, 24. surg»cal cases, 140. childbirth cases, 205. Mumps, 93. Nausea after anaesthetics, 138. Navel in infant, care of, 221. Nervous shock to nursing mother, 217. Night arrangements, 31. Night-chair, 42. use forbidden in labor, 179. Nipples after childbirth, care of, 217. Noise, injurious, 12. Nose, foreign body in, 159. Nose-bleed, 164. Nurse, one person responsible, 7. professional, 8, 16. Nurse, personal appearance, 8. personal cleanliness, 9. hands, how to keep nice, 9. conduct toward servants, 9. family, 10. meals and exercise, 10. when acceptable to patient, 12. thinking inside the head, 13. topics to avoid, 13. gossipping forbidden, 14. limit of stay, 14. an aid in distress, 15. Christian faith, 15. how to escape infection, 154. monthly nursing, 165. wet-nursing, 230. Nursery, care of, 244. Nursing an infant, mother's duty, 214. '* conditions which forbid it, 214, 217. how soon to .begin, 215, 226. how to lay the infant, 215. regularity of hours, 216. care of breasts during, 217. first milk important, 226. too long continued, 228. symptoms of danger, 228, bottles and utensils, 237. Oil for surgeon's use, 130. Oiling instruments, 197. Open chimney, 17. Operations, preparing for, 137. afterward, 138. Opium-poisoning, 162. Ovariotomy, 144. Pads and cushions, 42. Painful topics 13.