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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

SECUNDINES. The placenta and membranes; the afterbirth.

  SEDATIVES. Medicines which diminish the action of the heart and
        nerves, and which are quieting.

  SEPTIC. Having power to promote putrefaction.

  SEPTICEMIA. Blood poisoning by putrid infection.

  SEQUELÆ. Morbid phenomena supervening after disease.

  SEROUS. Watery.

  SERUM. Watery animal fluids.

  SHOCK. Sudden depression of the vital powers.

  SIALAGOGUE. A medicine producing an increased flow of saliva.

  SINAPISM. A mustard draught.

  SINGULTUS. Continued hiccough.

  SINUS. An elongated cavity or abscess, having a small orifice.

  SITU. Situation.

  SLOUGH. A dead or mortified portion.

  SOLUTION. The preparation made by dissolving a solid in a liquid.

  SPECULUM. An instrument for dilating a passage or facilitating an
        examination.

  SPHINCTER. A circular muscle for contracting a natural opening.

  SPINAL CORD. A continuation of the brain through the vertebral column.

  SPORADIC. Occurring singly or scattered.

  STERCORACEOUS. Mixed with fæcal matter.

  STERNUTATORY. Causing sneezing.

  STETHOSCOPE. An instrument for conveying sound from the body to the
        ear.

  STRABISMUS. Squinting; an affection causing what is called cross-eye.

  STRANGURY. A painful discharge of urine.

  STRICTURE. Contraction of a portion of a duct or tube.

  STUPE. A fomentation by means of hot cloths.

  STYPTIC. Strongly astringent.

  SUBCUTANEOUS. Beneath the skin.

  SUBJECTIVE. Pertaining to one’s own consciousness.

  SUBSULTUS. Twitching of the muscles.

  SUDAMINA. Small vesicles caused by profuse sweating.

  SUDORIFEROUS. Sweating.

  SUDORIFICS. Medicines which produce a flow of perspiration.

  SUPERIOR. The upper of two parts.

  SUPPOSITARY. Medicine in a solid form, intended for introduction into
        the rectum, or vagina.

  SUPPRESSION. Stoppage of a discharge.

  SUPPURATION. The process of forming pus.

  SUTURES. 1st. The seams that unite the bones of the skull. 2d.
        Stitches to hold the edges of a wound together.

  SYMPHASIS. A peculiar kind of articulation.

  SYMPTOMS. Signs or phenomena which accompany disease.

  SYNCHONDROSIS. Union by cartilage or gristle.

  SYNCOPE. A fainting or swooning.

  SYSTEMIC. Pertaining to the system or body generally.

  SYSTOLE. The contraction of the heart.

  TÆNIA. A kind of long intestinal worm; a tape worm.

  TAMPON. A plug designed to arrest hemorrhage.

  TAXIS. Pressure made by the fingers to return a hernial tumour.

  TENDON. A cord or bundle of fibres attaching muscle to bone.

  TENESMUS. A straining at stool; a painful sensation in the lower part
        of the rectum.

  TENT. A cylinder designed for dilating a part.

  TERTIAN. Occurring every third day, or every forty-eight hours.

  TETANUS. A disease characterized by continuous muscular contractions;
        a lockjaw.

  THERAPEUTICS. The application of remedies for diseases.

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