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 / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Pye Henry Chavasse
Date:
1866
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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 / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    that where a lady has gone her time, she has been unable to suckle her infant—the attempt often causing a gathered bosom. These are great misfortunes, and entail great misery both on the mother and on the child (if it has not already killed him), and should be a caution and a warning to every lady for the future. 125. The garters, during pregnancy, must be worn slack.—Another article of dress too commonly worn, is not without its evils—tight garters, which add seriously to the annoyances caused by oedema [swell- ing] of the lower extremities, and by varicose [dilated] veins * ABLUTION. 126. A warm bath in pregnancy is too relaxing. — A tepid bath, once a week, is beneficial.—Sponging the body, every morning, with tepid water, may be adopted with safety and advantage; gradually re- ducing the temperature of the water until it be used quite cold.—The skin should be quickly but tho- roughly dried with moderately coarse towels. 127. The lidet, or sitz-bath,f should be used every morning.—The patient should first sponge herself, and then finish up by sitting for a few seconds in the * Dr. Montgomery. f The bidet may be procured of a cabinet-maker; the site bath, of a furnishing ironmonger.
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