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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    advice, that means may be used to bring back her appetite. The stomach in all probability is at fault; if it be, the want of appetite, the consequent sensation of sinking of the stomach, and the depression of tlio spirits, are all explained; but which, with judicious treatment, may soon bo set to rights. 74. If the loss of appetite for breakfast arise from pregnaucy—and sometimes it is one of the earliest symptoms—time will rectify it, and the appetite, with- out the necessity of a particle of medicine, will shortly, with its former zest, return. 75. A young married woman's diet ought to be sub- stantia], plain, and nourishing. She must frequently vary the kind of food, of meat especially, as also the manner of cooking it. Nature delights in a variety of food, of air, and of exercise. If she were fed for some considerable period on one kind of meat, she could scarcely digest any other; and in time either a dis- ordered or a diseased stomach would be likely to ensue. I have sometimes heard with pain and annoyance, a patient advised to live on mutton chops, and to have no other meat than mutton ! Now this is folly in the ex- treme. Such an unfortunate patient's stomach in the course of time would not be able to digest any other meat, and after a while would have a difficulty in diges- ing even mutton chops, and wretched and ruined health would to a certainty ensue. 76. Three substantial and nourishing meals a day will bo sufficient. It is a mistaken notion to imagine that little and often is best. The stomach requires rest as much as, or more than, any other part of the body; and how, if food be constantly put into it, can it have rest I There is no part of the body more imposed and put upon than the human stomach— To spur beyond Its wiser will the jaded appetite,— Is tliis for pleasure ? Learn a juster taste, And know that temperance is true \\ix\\Ty.—A)'mstrong. 77. It is a mistaken notion, and injurious to health.