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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    64 light or the landing window open. There ought, by some means or other, if the inmates of the room are to have sweet and refreshing sleep, to be thorough ventila- tion of tlie sleeping apartment. I have no patience to hear some men—and there are such men !—assert that it is better to sleep in a close room—in a foul room ! They miglit, with equal truth, declare that it is desir- able for a healthy peason to swallow every night a doso of arsenic in order to prolong his life ! Carbonic acid gas is as truly a poison as arsenic ! If there be a dress- ing-room next to the bedroom, it will be well to have the dressing-room window, instead of the bedroom window, open at night. The di'essing-roooi door will regulate the quantity of ah to be admitted into the bed- room, opening it either little or much as the weather might be cold or otherwise.* The idea that it will give cold is erroneous; it will be more likely, by strengthen- uig the system and by carrying off the impurities of the lungs and skin, to prevent cold. 137. Some persons, accustomed all their lives to sleep in a close, foul room—in a room contaminated with car- bonic acid gas—cannot sleep in a fresh weU-ventilated chamber, in a chamber M'ith either door or window open ; they seem to require the stupefying effects^ of the car- bonic acid gas, and cannot sleep without it! If such be the case, and as sleep is of such vital importance to the human economy, let both window and door be closed ; but do not, on any account, let the chimney be stop])ed, as there must bo, in a bedroom, ventilation of some kind or another, or ill-health will mcvitably ensue. 138. It is madness to sleep in a room without venti- lation—// is inhalhio poison ; for the carbonic acid gas, the refuse of resphaiioii, which the lungs are constantly thi-owmg off, is a ])03son—a deadly poison—and, of coui'se. if there be no ventilation, a person must brcatho tms carbonic acid gas mixed with the atmospheric avr «^ Pye ChaTassf's AcLvkt to a MUhn, Elevenll Edition.