8. SUBMIT YOURSELF ENTIRELY TO THE DIRECTION OF YOUR PHYSICIAN.—Do not indulge in any opinion that may clash with his, even if that opinion is founded upon what is here written; you cannot expect to know more than he. It may be that he will wish to examine you by palpation, etc., to know if the fœtus lies as it should do, as something may be done to correct a malposition by external manipulation if the effort is made early. No good physician will permit that your sensibilities should be shocked by an unreasonable demand. If you have studied this book diligently you will be prepared to converse intelligently with your physician, and you will understand and appreciate any directions that he may give. If you have taken any medicine prepared from formula herein inserted, you know, and can inform him what the medicine is; this is better than it would be if you had taken patent medicine, of the ingredients of which you are ignorant. Consult with your physician in regard to the choice of a nurse, as he will be likely to know those that understand their business, and that are in the habit of following the doctor’s directions, or he may know whether the one you selected is now attending a woman that has contagious disease. 9. CHOOSE A GOOD NURSE.—You should have the best possible aid that the nature of circumstances will permit. Do not get a fine lady nurse that requires to be constantly waited on by a servant, and do not get a croaker that discourses of the sad and dreadful cases that have occurred in her experience. Do not get any one that is addicted to intemperance, or a potterer that is devoid of method and efficiency; that does the wrong thing in the wrong way, and that is always out of her proper place. Get a nurse that will not dose and medicate either the mother or child when they are under the care of a physician, or assume any duty or responsibility that belongs to him; that admits that the doctor is the one to give orders. Get one that never reveals the private concerns of her former employers; one that is not a mischief-maker, causing dissention and disagreement in the household. Do not get one that is young, if she is giddy and thoughtless and inexperienced, nor one that is old, if she is deaf and stupid. Get, preferably, a married woman or a widow; one that has at some time had the care of infants; one that has a pleasant countenance, and is naturally cheerful; one that has calmness and self possession, and firmness, and at the same time is gentle, kind, good-tempered and obliging; she should have a light step, a pleasant voice, a cheering smile, a dextrous hand, a gentle touch, and be gifted in cooking for the sick. By preference, engage a monthly nurse; she will not be so likely to come to you from a case of scarlet fever or erysipelas, or other contagious disease.