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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    love of cMdren is planted deeply in woman's heart. The love of children is woman's instbict. 49. There is in this country at the present time a vast amount of womb diseases; much of which, by judici-ous management, might altogether be prevented; but really as long as rich wives live a life of excitement, of luxury, of idleness, and of stimulants, there is but little chance of a diminution of the same. 50. Uterine ailment—womb ailment—is a fruitful source of a lady's illness; indeed, I will go so far as to affirm that uterine complaints are almost always, more or less, mixed up with a woman's illness; hence, the womb has, by a medical man, to be considered in all the diseases and disorders appertaining both to girlhood and to womanhood. 51. If a young wife be likely to have a family, let her continue to Hve heartily and well; but if she have been married a year or two without any prospect of an increase, let her comnience to.live abstemiously on fresh milk, butter-milk, bread, potatoes, and farinaceous diet, with very little meat, and no siimulants whatever; let her Uve, indeed, very much either as a poor curate's wife or as a poor Irish woman is compelled to live. 52. It is not the poor woman that is cursed with barrenness—she has often more mouths than she can well fill; but the one that frequently labours under that ban is the pampered, the luxurious, the indolent, the fashionable vsdfe; and most assuredly, until she change her system of living to one more consonant with common sense, she will continue to do so. It is grievous to contemplate that oftentimes a lady, with every other temporal good, is deficient of two earthly blessings— health and children; and still more lamentable, when we know that they frequently arise from her own seek- ing, that they are withhold from her in consequence of her being a votary of fashion. Many of the ladies of the present day, too, if they do bear children, are, from dehcacy of constitution, quite unable to suckle them. Should such things be 1 But why, it might be asked,