Woman and her diseases : from the cradle to the grave : adapted exclusively to her instruction in the physiology of her system and all the diseases of her critical periods / by Edward H. Dixon.

  • Dixon, Edward H., 1808-1880.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Woman and her diseases : from the cradle to the grave : adapted exclusively to her instruction in the physiology of her system and all the diseases of her critical periods / by Edward H. Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the general reader; it is oar purpose hen meiely to lion. i ih. more prominenl errors of infantile management, as influencing the future welfare of the voung female. The manner in which these act, in producing derangement of her more important funo- : forth in subsequent chapters, when ws of them in detail. Until the period of its birth, however uncongenial v itli nature's i iewa as influencing its own development, the management of its parent's appetite may have been, they have not been able to ezercj ie any direel influence for evil upon its body; bul no sooner does it make its appearance in tins world of independent lif*, than the ilts of ignorance of nature's laws appear in its universal management. Firstly, an ignorant nurse is permitted to squeeze its lungs into the narrow. mpass with a bandage, enveloping again and again form; then its inti • irritated with •oil, ami various nostrums, such as pare] - Cordial, Dalby's Carminative, etc., etc., are . to allay tlie pain produced by the medicine ; then it is fed with pap, composed of crackers, boiled flour, and various other improvements upon its'natural diet. It is jolted on the knee, or rocked in a cradle hnn. in a feather bed, till exhausted nature comes to its re- lief and it This process is continued from day lo da* iL> liLvd is sweltered with a cai>—it is ha.ll' suf