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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

144. FOR COUGH.

       ℞ Syrup wild cherry                         ℥ iij
         Tinct. sanguinaria                        ℥ j.
         Morphine                                  grs. ij.
         Chlorate potash                           grs. xv.
         Muriate of ammonia                        grs. x.
         Aqua                                      ℥ j. M.

  Sig. Dose, ½ a teaspoonful every six hours, and after each spell of
  coughing.

                        ENEMATA AND INJECTIONS.

                          145. FOR ASCARIDES.

       ℞ Sulphuric ether                           5 to 20 drops.
         Water                                     ½ pint to a pint. M.

  Inject into the bowels.

               146. INJECTION FOR ASCARIDES OR PINWORMS.

       ℞ Acid carbolici                            ℈ j.
         Potassa chloratis                         ʒ ij.
         Aqua                                      Oj. M.

  Warm to 98° and inject into the bowels.

 147. INJECTION FOR THE VAGINA. (THIS MAY BE USED DILUTED WITH WATER.)

       ℞ Tannin                                    ℈ j.
         Zinci sulphatis                           ʒ ij.
         Aqua tepidi                               Oj. M.

  Inject with a Davidson or a fountain syringe.

                        148. ENEMA FOR PINWORMS.

       ℞ Argenti nitratis (nitrate silver) cryst.  8 grs.
         Aqua distilat                             6 oz. for an enema.

  Repeat this each day for four or five days. This will stain
  clothing.

                     149. ENEMA TO MOVE THE BOWELS.

       ℞ Ol. ricini (castor oil)                   f. ℥ ij.
         Ol. terebinth. (spirits turpentine)       f. ʒ i.
         Aqua fervent                              Oij.

  To be administered at once.

             150. FOR ASCARIDES CAUSING VAGINAL DISCHARGE.

       ℞ Tinct. ferri chloridi                     ℥ ss.
         Aqua calcis                               Oj. Ft. injectio.

  Inject one-half into the rectum at night and the other half the next
  morning.

                        151. EMMENAGOGUE ENEMA.

       ℞ Aloes barbadensis                         gr. x.
         Tepid milk                                f. ℥ M.

  To be injected twice a day when the menstrual flow is due, for one
  or two days.

                       152. FOR IRRITABLE UTERUS.

       ℞ Bromide potash                            ʒ j.
         Water                                     Oj. M.

  Use as a rectal injection. Where there is pain in the part, one
  drachm of the tincture of opium hyoscyamus or conium may be used in
  the same way.

                        153. VAGINAL INJECTIONS.

         Errata. On page 85 for (F. 153, 199) read (163, 214).

The vaginal injections most used when disinfection is the special
object, and the usual proportions are the following:

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