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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    aweet and refreshing slumber. They cannot, at one and the same time, do two things—digest food and sleep ! And as most people can dispense with food better than they can with sleep, by all means let sleep be the first considered. 83. How is it that somotlmes a lady who has an ex- cellent appetite is, notwitLstanding, almost as thin as a rake? It is not what she eats, hat what she digests, that makes her fat. Some people would fatten on bread and water, while others would, on the fat of the land, be as tliin as Pharaoh's lean kine. Our happiness and our longevity much depend on the wealcness or on the sound- ness of our stomachs : it is the stomach, as a rule, that both gauges our happiness and that determines the span of the life of both men and women. How necessary it is, then, that due regard should be paid to such an im- portant organ, and that everything should be done to conduce to the stomach's welfare; not by overloading the stomach with rich food ; not by a scanty and meagre diet, but by adopting a middle course betwixt and between high living and low living—the juste milieu. We should all of us remember that glorious saying— those immortal words of St Paul— Be temperate in aU things. 84. Where a lady is very thin, good fresh milk (if it agree) should form an important item of her diet. ]\Iilk is both fattening and nourishing, more so than any other article of food known : but it should never be taken at the same meal (except it be in the form of pudding) with either beer or stout or wine : they are incompatibles, and may cause disarrangement of the stomach and bowels. Milk would often agree with an adult, where it now dis- agrees, if the admixture of milk with either beer or stout or wine were never allowed. If she cannot take milk, let her take cream and water. Cream, butter, and sugar are fatteners; but they must be given in moderation, or they will disorder the stomach, and thus the object will ba defeated. Farinaceous food, such aa corn-flour and arrow-root, are all fatteners. Stout, if it agree, ia