Produced by Richard Tonsing, Cindy Horton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) MOTHER, NURSE AND INFANT: A MANUAL ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE GUIDANCE OF MOTHERS AND MONTHLY NURSES, COMPRISING FULL INSTRUCTION IN REGARD TO Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-Birth, AND The Care of Mother and Child, AND DESIGNED TO IMPART SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE OF ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, MIDWIFERY, AND THE PROPER USE OF MEDICINES AS WILL SERVE INTELLIGENTLY TO DIRECT THE WIFE, MOTHER AND NURSE IN ALL EMERGENCIES. BY S. P. SACKETT, M. D. NEW YORK: H. CAMPBELL CO., PUBLISHERS 140–142 NASSAU ST. 1889. COPYRIGHTED, 1889, —BY— S. P. SACKETT. _All rights reserved._ PRESS OF E. D. NORTON, ITHACA, N. Y. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. The object of the author in writing this volume is to offer to nurses, and especially to those women who desire to make “monthly nursing” a vocation, the instruction which they need for that purpose, sufficiently illustrated and at a moderate price. The book is written under a firm conviction in the mind of the author that a work of this character is needed at the present time—a work that combines some information to the monthly nurse in regard to her peculiar duties with considerable instruction in midwifery. He has many times heard inquiries made for a book of this kind and has not been able to point to one of the character desired. He has learned during the forty-five years that he has practiced medicine in a small city and its vicinity, that mother and nurse are often combined in the same person. The important duty of nursing the sick is so generally performed by mothers, that they also, as a class, require some scientific knowledge to be acquired by means of plain, practical instruction. And, in fact, throughout our country, every mother is liable, in an emergency, to be called upon to fill the office of an accoucheur.