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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

CACHEXIA. A generally depraved condition of the system; a
        constitutional tendency.

  CÆSAREAN SECTION. The operation of removing a fœtus from the womb
        through the abdomen.

  CALCULUS. A stone in the bladder or some part of the body.

  CANULA. A small tubular instrument.

  CAPILLARIES. The smallest division of blood vessels.

  CAPILLARY. Hairlike; small.

  CAPSICUM. The red pepper.

  CAPSULE. A membranous sac; a gelatinous envelope in which medicine is
        taken.

  CARBONIC. Pertaining to carbon or charcoal.

  CARCINOMA. A cancer.

  CARDIAC. Pertaining to the heart.

  CARDIAC ORIFICE. The upper or left orifice of the stomach.

  CARIES. Ulceration of the bone or teeth.

  CARMINATIVE. A medicine which tends to expel flatus.

  CARTILAGE. Gristle, a substance softer than bone.

  CATAMENIA. Menstrual discharges.

  CATAPLASM. A poultice.

  CATARRH. A discharge of secretion from a mucous membrane.

  CATHARTICS. Medicines causing discharges from the bowels.

  CATHETER. A tubular instrument for introduction into the urethra.

  CAUSTIC. An escharotic ; a burning application.

  CELULAR STRUCTURE. A tissue composed of minute cells.

  CELLULITIS. Inflammation of celular or connective tissue.

  CEPHALALGIA. Pain in the head.

  CEREBELLUM. The lesser brain; the posterior portion of brain.

  CEREBRAL. Relating to the brain.

  CERVIX. The neck.

  CHALYBEATES. A liquor or medicine containing iron.

  CHARTA. A paper or powder.

  CHEST. The body from the neck to the abdomen.

  CHIRURGERY. Surgery.

  CHOLAGOGUE. Medicine increasing the flow of bile.

  CHLOASMA. Liver spots; brownish discolorations of the skin.

  CHOLÆMIA. Bile existing in the blood.

  CHOLESTERINE. A fatty substance.

  CHOREA. St. Vitus dance; a disease.

  CHORION. An envelope of the ovum.

  CHRONIC. Of long duration.

  CHYLE. A milky fluid made from chyme.

  CHYME. The pulp into which food is changed in the stomach.

  CICATRIX. A scar remaining after a wound is healed.

  CILIA. Hairlike appendages.

  CLINICAL. At the bedside; pertaining to a bed.

  CLITORIS. A little erectile tubercle at the front part of the vulva.

    Erratum. On page 66 sixth line from the bottom, for g. vagina,
          read g. clitoris.

  CLONIC. Contracting and relaxing.

  CLYSTER. An enema; an injection into the bowels.

  COAGULUM. A clot.

  COAPTATION. Fitting together properly.

  COCCYX., Oscoccygis; a small bone at the lower end of the sacrum.

  COLLAPSE. A sudden failing of the vital powers.

  COLLIQUATIVE. Causing rapid exhaustion.

  COLLYRIUM. An eye water.

  COLOSTRUM. The first milk secreted after delivery.

  COLON. A portion of the large intestines.

  COMA. A profound sleep; lethargy.

  COMMISSURE. A point of union between two parts.

  COMPOUND FRACTURE. One which communicates with the surface; a fracture
        where the bone has protruded through the skin.

  CONDYLE. A protuberance on a bone.

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