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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

NARES. The passage through the nose; the nostril.

  NATES. The seat; the buttocks.

  NECROSIS. Death of the bone.

  NEURALGIA. Painful affection of the nerves.

  NEURILEMMA. The sheath investing a nerve.

  NORMAL. Regular; natural; as it ought to be.

  NYMPHÆ. The labia interna; two lateral folds of mucous membrane within
        the labia externa.

  OBSTETRICS. Midwifery.

  OBTURATOR FORAMEN. An opening between the pubic and ischiatic arches
        closed by a membranous ligament.

  OCCIPUT. The hinder part of the skull or head.

  ODONTALGIA. Toothache.

  ŒDEMA. Swelling from the presence of serum in the areolar tissue.

  ŒSOPHAGUS. The gullet.

  OFFICINAL. Authorized by the Pharmacopœia.

  OMENTUM. The caul; a peritoneal fold covering the bowels.

  ONYCHIA. A small abscess at the side of the finger nail.

  OPTHALMIA. Inflammation of eyes.

  OPTHALMIA NEOTORUM. Inflammation of the eyes of new born children.

  OPTIC. Relating to the vision.

  ORBIT. The bony cavity containing the eye.

  ORTHOPNŒA. Difficulty of breathing, especially on lying down.

  OS. 1st mouth, 2d bone.

  OSMOSIS. The passage of a fluid through a porous membrane.

  OS SACRUM. The posterior bone of the pelvis.

  OSSIFICATION. Conversion into bone.

  OS UTERI. The mouth of the uterus; the os tincæ.

  OVIDUCT. A duct in the Fallopian tube.

  OVULATION. The formation and discharge of eggs or ovules.

  OVUM. An egg; an embryo and its membranes.

  OXYTOCIC. Having power to increase uterine pains.

  OZÆNA. Fetid ulcer in the nose.

  PALMAR. Pertaining to the interior of the hand.

  PALPATION. Exploring diseased parts by touching and pressure.

  PAPILLA. Minute nipple shaped elevations in the skin and mucous
        membrane.

  PARAPLEGIA. Paralysis of the lower half of the body.

  PARENCHYMA. The mass or principal part of organs like the lungs or
        liver.

  PARIETAL. Relating to the walls.

  PAROXYSM. An exacerbation of severity, in a disorder.

  PARTURITION. Delivery; the act of bringing forth.

  PATHOLOGY. The science which treats of the nature of disease.

  PECTORAL. Pertaining to the chest or breast.

  PEDILUVIUM. A foot bath.

  PELVIS. The bony structure of the lower extremity of the body.

  PERCUSSION. The act of striking on a body to elicit sounds.

  PERINEUM. The space between the tuberosities of the ischium, the anus,
        and the genitals.

  PERISTALTIC. Vermicular or wormlike.

  PERITONEUM. A serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity.

  PERTUSSIS. Whooping cough.

  PESSARY. An instrument to support the uterus when introduced into the
        vagina.

  PETECHIA. Spots which appear on the skin in malignant fever.

  PHARMACOPŒIA. A treatise describing the preparation of all kinds of
        medicine.

  PHARYNX. The upper part of the œsophagus.

  PHTHISIS. Consumption.

  PHYSIOLOGY. The science of the properties and functions of living
        beings.

  PLACENTA. The after birth.

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