A BOOK OF MEDICAL DISCOURSES _IN TWO PARTS_. PART FIRST: TREATING OF THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF INFANTILE BOWEL COMPLAINTS, FROM BIRTH TO THE CLOSE OF THE TEETHING PERIOD, OR TILL AFTER THE FIFTH YEAR. PART SECOND: CONTAINING MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LIFE AND GROWTH OF BEINGS; THE BEGINNING OF WOMANHOOD; ALSO, THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF MANY OF THE MOST DISTRESSING COMPLAINTS OF WOMEN, AND YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES. BY REBECCA CRUMPLER, M. D. BOSTON: CASHMAN, KEATING & CO., PRINTERS. FAYETTE COURT, 603 WASHINGTON ST. 1883. Copyright 1883, By REBECCA CRUMPLER, M.D. DEDICATION. TO MOTHERS, NURSES, AND ALL WHO MAY DESIRE TO MITIGATE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE HUMAN RACE, _THIS BOOK_ IS PRAYERFULLY OFFERED. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE. Introduction 1 I. How to Marry 5 II. The Present Modes of Washing and Dressing the New-born 7 III. Preparations for Confinement 11 IV. The Better Mode of Washing the New-born 14 V. Necessity of Agreeable and Soothing Surroundings 18 VI. Nursing from the Breast made easy 20 VII. The Uselessness of “Baby Medicines” during the Month 25 VIII. Dropping of the Navel Cord 32 IX. Artificial Nursing 36 X. The Milk Fever 40 XI. Precautions after the month—Proper and Improper Diet 45 XII. General Treatment of Infants 52 XIII. Time for Weaning 57 XIV. Sects. 1, 2, 3, 4. Cholera Infantum _versus_ Starvation 61 XV. The Causes and Prevention of Cholera Infantum 76 XVI. Convenient Methods for Raising Infants without the Breast 80 XVII. Teething made easy, Secs. 1, 2 90 XVIII. Complications of Teething with Diseases 98 XIX. General Remarks 105 Part Second. Miscellaneous Information 120