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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    her carriage. ' Strange infatuation 1 Is she not aware tliat she has hundreds of muscles that want exercising 1 that she has lungs that require expanding 1 that she has nerves that demand hracing? that she has hlood that needs circulating 1 And how does she thuik that the muscles can be exercised, that the lungs can he expanded, that the nerves can be braced, and that the blood can be properly circulated, unless these are aU made to perform their proper functions by an abundance of lualMivj exercise ] It is utterly impossible ! 32. Does she desire to be strong 1 Then let her take exercise ! Does she hope to retain her bloom and her youthful appearance, and stiU to look charmnig in the eyes of her husband ] Then let her take exercise I Does she wish to banish nervousness and low spirits ] Tlien let her take exercise ! There is nothing standing still in Nature—if it were, creation would languish and die ! There is a perpetual motion ! And so must we be con- stantly employed (when not asleep), if we are to bo healthy and strong ! Nature will not be triOcd with ; these are her laws—immutable and unchangeable, and we cannot infringe them with impunity— Labour is life ! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever dospairetb, bewaileth ; Keep the watch wound, for the dark night assailetli; Flowers droop and die iu the stOlness of noon. Labour is glory ! The flying cloud lightens ; Ouly the waving wing changes and brightens ; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens ; Plav the sweet keys, would'st thou keep them in tune ! Mrs Frances Osgooa. How grapliic and beautiful are the following Hues of Cowper:— By ceaseless action all that is subsists. Constant rotation of th' unwearied wheel, That Nature rides upon, mnintaius her health. Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads An instant's pause, and lives but while she moves. The word fertility is most ai)propriate to our sub- ject for how many women does idleness make barren!