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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

℞ Corrosive sublimate, 1 to 1000 or 2000; carbolic acid, 5 or 10 to
  1000; thymal, 1 to 1000; sulphite of soda, 5 to 1000; permangenate
  of potash, 5 to 1000; liquor sodii chlorinatæ (Labaraques solution),
  1 to 2; chlorine water, 1 to 2; salacylic acid, 1 to 1000 hot water.

  For medicinal astringent vaginal injections, give alum, sulphate of
  zinc, or lead, copper, and iron, salts of the strength of one or two
  per cent.

The permangenate of potash, silver nitrate, and iron solutions all make
almost indelible stains on the linen.

If the injections are corrosive, a large straight glass syringe should
be used.


                     154. INJECTION FOR LEUCORRHŒA.

       ℞ Alum,
         Sulphate of zinc,
         Borate of soda,
         Pure carbolic acid                        aa. ℥ jss.
         Water                                     Oij. M.

  Of this two table spoonfuls in a pint of water.


                        155. VAGINAL INJECTION.

       ℞ Zinci sulphatiz,
         Aluminis exsiccata                        aa. ℥ j.
         Acidi tannici                             ℥ ij. Mix. Label.

  Half a teaspoonful to be mixed with a pint of tepid or cold water to
  form an injection.


                     156. INJECTION FOR DYSENTERY.

       ℞ Mucilage of gum Arabic or starch          ℥ ij.
         Laudanum                                  gtt. xx. M.

  For an injection.


                  157. INJECTION FOR FETID LEUCORRHŒA.

       ℞ Chlorate of potash                        ʒ j.
         Laudanum                                  f. ʒ j.
         Tar water                                 Oij. M.

  S. Three table spoonfuls to be added to the pint of warm water as a
  vaginal injection.


                   EMMENAGOGUES—UTERINE THERAPEUTICS.


                      158. STIMULANT EMMENAGOGUE.

       ℞ Potassa bromide                           ʒ j.
         Tinct. cantharides                        f. ʒ jss.
         Tinct. cinnamomi                          f. ʒ jv.
         Aqua                                      q. s. ad. f. ℥ jss.
                                                     M.

  S. Teaspoonful three times a day for amenorrhœa and hysteria.


                          159. FOR CHLOROSIS.

       ℞ Tinct. ferri per chloridi                 f. ʒ jss.
         Potassa chloratis                         ℈ jss.
         Tinct. actea racemosa                     f. ʒ jv.
         Infusi serpentaria                        ad. f. ℥ M.

  Sig. One-eighth part three times a day.


                        160. RECTAL SUPPOSITARY.

       ℞ Ext. opii aq.                             3 grains.
         Ext. belladonna                           1½ grains.
         Buteri cacao                              q. s. 1½ ounces. M.
                                                     ft. suppos. No. 12.

  S. Apply one to relieve pain in the region of the uterus or rectum.


                     161. FOR PAINFUL MENSTRUATION.

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