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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

℞ Aromatic spirits of ammonia               fl. ʒ j.
         Dilute hydrocyanic acid                   min. ij.
         Syrup ginger                              min. f. ʒ j.
         Caraway water                             fl. ʒ vîj.

  Make a draught. To be taken twice or three times a day if there be
  flatulence or languor. In dyspepsia, debility, irritable stomach,
  &c.


                            86. FOR ASTHMA.

       ℞ Tinct. lobelia                            ℥ j.
         Ammon. iodide,
         Ammon. bromide                            aa. ʒ ij.
         Syrup tolu.                               ℥ iij. M.

  Sig. A table spoonful every one, two, three, or four hours.


                        87. FOR WHOOPING COUGH.

       ℞ Aluminis                                  ℈ ijss.
         Syrup zinzib.                             ℥ j.
         Syrup acaciæ                              ℥ j.
         Aqua                                      ℥ j. M.

  Sig. One teaspoonful three times a day.


                            88. FOR ASTHMA.

       ℞ Ext. Jamaica dogwood                      fl. ℥ ij.
         Syrup ipecac                              fl. ℥ j.
         Syrup aurant. cortex                      ℥ ss. M.

  Sig. A teaspoonful every hour until the paroxysm should cease.
  Afterwards every four hours for the day.


                    89. ASIATIC MIXTURE FOR CHOLERA.

       ℞ Gum opii,
         Gum camph.                                aa. ℥ j.
         Ol. caryoph.                              f. ℥ j.
         Capsicum (cayenne)                        ℥ j.
         Sp. æth sulph. Co.                        Oij. Digest 15 days.

  Dose for an adult, 20 to 60 drops every 2, 3, or 4 hours.


                         90. FOR DYSMENORRHŒA.

       ℞ Tinct. gelsemium,
         Tinct. camphor,
         Tinct. opii deodorized                    aa. ʒ ij. M.

  S. Dose 20 drops every two hours until relieved. Useful in dysentery
  after the operation of Epsom salts.


                  91. HOFFMAN’S ANODYNE AND LAUDANUM.

       ℞ Liquoris anodyne Hoffman’s                ʒ iij.
         Tincturæ thebiacæ                         gtt. lxxx.
         Aqua cinnamomi                            ℥ vj.

  Fiat Mistura. Signa, A teaspoonful every hour in hysteria, &c. May
  sometimes be taken in a dose of a table spoonful.


                          92. FOR AFTER PAINS.

       ℞ Morphia sulphas                           gr. j.
         Pulv. camphoræ,
         Creta preparata,
         Pulv. glycerhiza                          aa. ℈ j. M.

  Given in 10 grain doses and repeated, when required, every 4 hours.


                              ASTRINGENTS.


                           93. FOR DYSENTERY.

       ℞ Acidi tanici                              gr. xxx.
         Tinct. camphoræ comp                      f. ℥ j.
         Aqua cinnamomi                            ad. f. ℥ viij. M.

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