Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labor, and suckling.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1871
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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, labor, and suckling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    11. But all these processes entail trouble. True : is anything in this world to be done without trouble ? and is not the acquisition of precious health worth trouble ? Yes, it is worth more than all our other acquisitions put together ! Life without health is a burden; life with health is a joy and gladness! Up, then, and arouse yourself, and be doing ! No time is to be lost if you wish to be well, to be a mother, and to be a mother of healthy children. The misfortune of it is, many ladies are more than half asleep, and are not aroused to danger till danger stares them in the face; they are not cognizant of ill health slowly creeping upon them, until, in too many cases, the time is gone by for relief, and ill health has become confirmed—has become a part and parcel of themselves; they do not lock the stable until the steed be stolen ; they do not use the means until the means are of no avail: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.* 12. Idleness is the mother of many diseases; she breeds them, feeds them, and fosters them, and is, more- over, a great enemy to fecundity. Idleness makes people miserable. I have heard a young girl—sur- rounded with every luxury—bemoan her lot, and com- plain that she was most unhappy in consequence of not having anything to do, and who wished that she * Shakspeare. 2