The nurse's guide, and family assistant : containing friendly cautions to those who are in health : with ample directions to nurses and others who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, Robert Wallace, 1719 or 1720-
Date:
1819
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Credit: The nurse's guide, and family assistant : containing friendly cautions to those who are in health : with ample directions to nurses and others who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    year, I bled only al)out six times in the year. During all this time, I went through great fatigue of body and mind, in every branch of medical practice, yet my health recovered, the cough and defluxion gradually abated, and quite left me, excepting when I caught cold, which I was much subjected to by being called often out of bed, at night, to attend in cases of midwifery, a part of my medical practice. Finding my health thus recovered, 1 indulged more freely in eating and drinking (though never to excess) and in the use of a carriage exercise in- stead of others. Ere long I felt wander- ing pains through the muscular parts, which soon fixed on one hip with such