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
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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![they are full of impure and poisoned air.—I say, im- pure and poisoned air, for the air becomes foul and deadly, if not perpetually changed—if not constantly mixed with fresh, pure, external air, both day and night.—Many persons are poisoned by iieir own breaths—by breathing the same air over and over again! This is not an exaggerated statement, alas, it is too true !— Now, this is the greatest difficulty that, in my humble character of ventilatingfnissionary, I have to contend with ; people did not actually re- cognise when the air teas foul. They had teen so long accustomed to live in an ill atmospherl that their physical (like, alas ! many a moral) stand/rd of purity had become degraded. Many a room that to me was stifling, was to them quite innocuois, or at least unnoticed. True, they felt its effecii; they com- plained of headache, weariness, loss ofl appetite and spirits, and, above all, of the drowsinesi which is the first sign of a vitiated atmosphere; lit they attri- buted all these things to ill healthier extraneous causes. It never entered their minds pat the present evil was a want of fresh air. It ne^tr occurred to them that the reason why, enjoying lip enough in the day-time, they yet complained of ' sirh bad nights,' and found such difficulty in rousingthemselves of a morning, was because the air that ciiulates round a sleeper at night should be exactly as Are as that which he breathes during the day. He maj defend his body with as many blankets as he likes, ust as he would with overcoats by daylight. He ma] shelter his eyes from light, and his head from draugliy currents ; but](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21030492_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
