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; with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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; with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Exercise, fresh air and occupation during pregnancv, 47 & 48 „ in open air after labour, 156 FALSE labour-pains, 97 Fainting in pregnancy, 80 & 81 Faintness during suckling, 181 Falling of the womb, 152 Fashionable system of spending married life, ] Feet, cold, exercise the remedy for, 5 Females who have sick pregnan- cies, 76 Fire, ill effects of sitting near, 3 Flannel, 127 Foetal circulation (note), 45 Food, variety of, necessary, 165 & 166 Friend, the choice of, during la- bour, 128 Fruit useful in pregnancy, 54 Fruitless suckling, 178 GARTERS, ill effects of, in preg- nancy, 46 Gathered breasts, 177 ,, „ causes of, 177 „ ,, importance of early treatment, 181 Gestation, period of, 100 Guarding of the bed/' 127 HEART, palpitation of, during pregnancy,82 Heart-burn in pregnancy, 63 Hints to attendants, 136 „ to mother when infant is ill, 166 Hot-water bag, 83 Household duties, 24 & 25 Husband in lying-in room, 119 INDIA-RUBBER teat and shield for drawn-in nipple, 172 ,, for sore-nip- ple, 174 Indolence, the ill-effects of, in pregnancy,48 Infant born apparently dead, 138 Infant, the period of suckling an, 185 Introductory Chapter, 1 Irritation and itching, 87 & 88 LABOUR, 109 „ rapid, directions con- cerning, 136 & 137 „ symptoms of, 109 Lavements in pregnancy, 61 Legs, the swollen, of pregnancv, 69 Length of time of first labour, 120 „ „ of an after la- bour, 120 Livelv women and easy labours, 48' Luxury, ill effects of, 10 Lying-in room, 145 „ ,, temperature of, 145 MARSHMALLOW and camomile fomentation (note), 150 Meddlesome midwifery repro- bated, 115, 116, 117, 118, & 119 Medicines in pregnancy, 57—88 Menstrual fluid, 35 Menstruation, 31 „ painful, 37 „ profuse, 38 „ when not proper- ly performed, 38 13 §