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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

℞ Acidi benzoici,
         Sodii biboratis                           aa. gr. x.
         Inf. buchu                                ℥ ij. M.

  Sig. This amount three times a day.


                       128. INFUSION OF UVA URSI.

       ℞ Uva ursi foliorum                         ℥ j.
         Aqua bulientis                            Oj.

  Pour the water boiling hot on the leaves and let them macerate for
  several hours. To be taken cold, from half a pint to a pint daily.
  Chiefly used for irritable bladder and strangury.


               129. FOR SUBACUTE AND CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.

       ℞ Potass iod.                               ʒ ij.
         Vin. calc. rad.                           f. ʒ ij.
         Tinct. guiac ammon.                       f. ℥ iij.
         Fld. ext. belladonna                      min. xx.
         Aqua cinnamon                             ℥ iij. M.

  A teaspoonful in water three times a day.


                     130. FOR MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.

       ℞ Potasii iodide                            ʒ j.
         Vini colchici rad.                        f. ʒ ij.
         Morphia sulphatis                         gr. iij.
         Syrupi                                    f. ℥ j.
         Aquæ                                      f. ℥ iij. M.

  S. A teaspoonful three times a day.


                            131. FOR DROPSY.

       ℞ Fld. ext. apocynum Canabinum              ʒ ij.
         Spts. lav. comp.                          ℥ ss.
         Syrup simplex                             ℥ iij ss. M.

  S. A teaspoonful every three or four hours.


                         132. FOR URETHRAITIS.

       ℞ Tinct. gelsemii                           ʒ ss.
         Potassii bromidi                          ʒ ijss.
         Potass. bicarb.                           ℥ ss.
         Aqua                                      ℥ iv. M.

  S. Dessert spoonful in water three times a day.


                                EMETICS.


                         133. POWDER OF IPECAC.

       ℞ Pulvis ipecacuanha                        ℈ ij. Divide into two
                                                     doses.

  Signa. One to be taken in a little sweetened water or warm water. If
  one powder does not produce the desired effect within thirty or
  forty minutes, the second to be taken in like manner. It may be
  followed by a draught of tepid water after vomiting commences.


                    134. POWDER OF SULPHATE OF ZINC.

       ℞ Sulphate of zinc                          10 grs. to ʒ ss.

  Signa. To be taken in syrup, and followed by a draught of warm
  water.


                        135. EMETIC FOR A CHILD.

  ℞ Very young children in some instances suffer from indigestion. If
  delicate give five grains ipecacuanha, and after that sickens the
  child give a dose of castor oil to remove the offending matter from
  the stomach.


         136. EMETIC USED IN CAPILLARY BRONCHITIS OF CHILDREN.

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