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 and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Q52148313
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[1877]
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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 and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fortunately too many of them Lave, a bad one; indeed, an abundance of walking exercise and of household occupation wU] frequently convert a bad into a good constitution. Moreover, there is not a greater beautifier in the world than fresli air and exercise; a lady who lives half her time in the open air,—in God's sunshine,— and who takes plenty of walking exercise, has generally a clear and beautiful complexion— She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew.—Shaksiicare. 21. M;iny wives, I am quite sure, owe their good health to their good legs, and to their good use of them. Woe betide those ladies who do not exercise their legs as they ought to do !—ill-health is sure to be their portion. Why, some ladies are little better than fix- tures ; they seem, for hours together, to be almost glued to tlioir scats! Such persons are usually nervous, dispirited, and liysterical, and well they might be—fancy- ing they have every disease under the sun—which hysteria feigns so well! There is no chance of their being better until they mend their ways—until they take nature's physic—an abundance of exercise and of fresh air! 22. Do not let rne be misunderstood: I am not ad- vocating that a delicate lady, unaccustomed to exercise, sliould at once take violent and long-continued exercise ; certainly not! Let a delicate lady learn to take exercise, as a young child would learn to walk—by degrees; let her creep, and then go; let her gradually increase her e.xcrcise, and let her do nothing either rashly or unad- visedly. If a child attempted to run before he could walk, ho would stumble and fall. A delicate lady requires just as much care in the training to take exercise as a child does in the learning to walk ; but exercise must be learned and must be practised, if a lady, or any one else, is to bo healthy and strong. Unfortunately, in this our day ths importance of exercise as a means of health is but littia understood and but rarely adopted: