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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.Sackett, S. P.

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Sackett, S. P.

Sackett, S. P.

Infants -- Care; Materia medica; Obstetrics -- Popular works; Women -- Health and hygiene

Sig. A table spoonful for a dose every two hours. When administered for
diarrhœa, astringents and laudanum may be added.


                          78. CHOLERA MIXTURE.

       ℞ Chalk mixture                             ℥ j.
         Spirits chloroform                        xx.
         Tinct. opium                              min. jv. M.

To be taken every four hours.


                       79. NEUTRALIZING CORDIAL.

       ℞ Bicarbonate of potash
         Pulv. rhei                                aa. ʒ ij. Mix and add
                                                     of
         Boiling water                             f. ℥ viij.
     Let it stand for two hours,                   filter and add
         Brandy                                    f. ℥ j.
         Essence peppermint                        f. ℥ j.

  Add white sugar to an agreeable sweetness.

Highly useful in diarrhœa, dysentery, summer complaint, &c., especially
of children.


                    80. FOR DIARRHŒA AND DYSENTERY.

       ℞ Oil cinnamon
         Oil cloves
         Extract ginger                            aa. ℥ ss.
         Morphine                                  grs. ij.
         Rhubarb                                   grs. xx.
         Aqua ammonia                              ʒ ij.
         Spirits camphor                           ʒ ij.
         Alcohol                                   ℥ viij.
         Water                                     ℥ iv. M.

  S. Dose, ¼ teaspoonful every two hours, in water.


                     81. SODA MINT FOR NAUSEA, &C.

       ℞ Sodæ bicarbonas                           ℥ j.
         Aqua Menth. pip.                          ℥ xvj.
         Spirits ammon. arom.                      ℥ ss. M.

  Dose. 1 table spoonful.


                      82. FOR FLATULENT DYSPEPSIA.

       ℞ Salacylate of bismuth                     2 parts.
         Calcined magnesia                         3 parts.
         Oil of anise                              1 part. M.

  Of this powder a small teaspoonful may be taken before a meal.


                              ANTISEPTICS.


                       83. LAVENDER AND CAMPHOR.

       ℞ Spirits of camphor                        min. xx.
         Spirits of lavender                       f. ʒ j.
         Gum trugacanth mucilage                   f. ʒ vij.

  Make a draught. To be taken every six or eight hours by a nervous
  attendant in a sick room.


                   84. SOLUTION OF CHLORINATED SODA.

       ℞ Liquoris chlorinatæ                       ʒ j.
         Tinct. opii                               min. xv.
         Camphonæ aquæ                             f. ℥ xij. M.

  A table spoonful three times a day relieves the fetor, and is
  otherwise useful in low cases of fever, gangrene of the lungs, &c.


                            ANTISPASMODICS.


                          85. AMMONIA MIXTURE.

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