Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in-room ; with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects and hints upon nursing.
- Thomas Bull
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in-room ; with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects and hints upon nursing. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![some. To appreciate the bearing of this remark, 1 need only remind you how very disagreeable is the air of a bedi'oom which has been occupied, to any person entering fresh from the open air. This shows how we may accustom ourselves even to very impure air; bi.t it is none the less deleterious, and is very frequentl}' the unsuspected cause of a restless night, or of unre- freshing sleep. Bedrooms, then, should be provided with ventilating valves ; they should have if possible an open fireplace, and the window may be left open just an inch at the top. If the current of air be too strong, it may be broken by fixing in a wooden frame a piece of finely perforated zinc, or wire-gauze, two or three inches deep : the frame so constructed should be fixed outside the v/indow-frame; the action of this simple contrivance is the same as the ' rose,' on a watering-can; it divides the current of air, in the same way as the rose divides the current of water, and breaks its fall. This is a very simj^le and very effectual plan. It must every now and then be taken down and cleaned, as the small holes gradually get filled up with fine particles of dust, and so stoj) the current of air. With such a contrivance, which can be made as ornamental as your means allow, you need not close the top sash of your bedroom window all the year round, and you would then secure for your rooms a constant and almost imperceptible sup]3ly of fresh air. In sick-rooms, or where a fire is burning, some such arrangement is imperatively demanded. During the day when the weather is dry, the windows and doors should be left wide open. I will here mention, as part of the subject of ventila- tion, that a stove in the entrance-hall is a most valuable ventilator—communicating as it does with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21044442_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
