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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

Label. One sixth part three times a day, about an hour before each
  meal.


                         94. CINNAMON MIXTURE.

       ℞ Tinct. cinnamon                           f. ʒ ij.
         Cinnamon water                            f. ℥ j. M.

  Make a draught to be taken thrice daily. In menorrhagia especially,
  but also in other varieties of passive hemorrhage.


                 95. CHLOROFORM, OPIUM, AND CASTOR OIL.

       ℞ Chloroform                                min. x.
         Tinct. camph. comp.                       f. ʒ ij.
         Castor oil                                f. ʒ iij.

  Make a draught to be taken immediately. In choleraic diarrhœa.


                 96. FOR HEMORRHAGE OF THE URETHRA, &C.

       ℞ Tinct. ergot,
         Oil of turpentine                         aa. f. ʒ ij.
         Tinct. chloride of iron,
         Laudanum                                  aa. f. ʒ j.
         Gum Arabic mucilage                       f. ℥ viij. M.

  Sig. Take one table spoonful hourly.


              97. IN HEMOPTYSIS (BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS.)

       ℞ Fld. ext. ergot,
         Paregoric,
         Syrup tolu equal parts.                   M.

  S. Half a table spoonful every hour if necessary.


         98. FOR PHTHISIS WHEN NIGHT SWEATS AND COUGH ARE BAD.

       ℞ Acidi sulphurici diluti                   gtt. x.
         Tincturæ opii deodoratæ                   gtt. x.
         Syrupi hypophosphatis                     f. ʒ j.
         Extracti Pruni Virginiani fluidi          f. ʒ ij. M.

  For a dose ter. die.

It will be more convenient to have the above put up according to the
following form:

       ℞ Elixir vitriol                            ʒ iij.
         Deodorized laudanum                       ʒ jss.
         Syrup hypophosphitis                      f. ʒ xv.
         Fld. ext. wild cherry                     f. ʒ xxx. M.

  Sig. Take nearly a table spoonful three times a day. (For an adult.)


                      99. FOR INFANTILE DIARRHŒA.

       ℞ Sub. nitrate bismuth                      ʒ ij.
         Laudanum                                  min. ij.
         Gum Arabic mucilage                       ℥ jv. Mix.

  S. A teaspoonful every two hours.


                        100. FOR CHOLERA MORBUS.

       ℞ Spirits am. arom.                         ℥ j.
         Spirits lav. co.                          ℥ j.
         Tinct. opii camph.                        ℥ ss. Mix.

  S. A teaspoonful in water every two hours or oftener, until
  relieved. In cholera morbus, colic, dysentery, &c.


                       101. FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM.

       ℞ Bismuthi sub carbonatis                   gr. xvj.
         Pulv. ipecacuanha comp.                   gr. j.
         Pulv. sacchari albi                       grs. xij. Mix.

  For viij. powders. One to be taken every three hours in the mother’s
  or cow’s milk.


                      102. FOR CHRONIC DYSENTERY.

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