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.
Sackett, S. P.
Infants -- Care; Materia medica; Obstetrics -- Popular works; Women -- Health and hygiene
Erysipelas 253, 362.
Essence of beef, 326.
Etherization, 291.
Excessive sweating, 298.
Exercise during pregnancy, 19, 26, 35.
—— before breakfast, 22.
Expectorants, 348.
Extra uterine pregnancy, 94.
Eye lotion, 357, 361, 362,.
Face presentations, 143, 183.
Fainting, 25.
Fainting in pregnancy, 25.
Falling of the uterus, 76.
Fallopian tubes, 67.
False labor pains, 34, 123.
Father’s influence, 15.
Fecundation, 94.
Feeding infants, 49, 307, 314.
Febrile disorders, 220.
Female weakness, 77.
Fire, clothes catching, 292.
Fissure of the anus, 218.
Fits, 290.
Flatulence, 38.
Flatulent colic, 333, 337.
Flaxseed, 315.
Flexions and versions of the womb, 75.
Flour boiled, 322.
Fluid aliments, 313.
Fœtal circulation, 104, 110, 111.
—— life, 103.
Fœtus its development, 105, 103.
—— size at term, 106.
Fomentations, 231, 234, 352.
Fontanelles, 169.
Food, during pregnancy, 19.
—— for a child, 50, 307.
—— for convalescents, 310.
—— milk and eggs, 312.
—— rules for giving, 310.
—— varieties of, 311.
Foot bath, 298.
Foreign matter in a wound, 254.
—— —— in the ear, 293.
—— —— —— —— eye, 293.
—— —— —— —— nose, 293.
—— —— —— —— throat, 294.
Formulæ for food, 314.
Formulæ for medicines, 332.
Fractured ribs, 296.
Fractures, nurses duties, 258.
Fractures, signs of, 257, 258.
Friction, 269.
Fruits, 313.
Fumigation, 241.
Fundus of the uterus, 65.
Gargles, 306.
Gathered breasts, 166.
Gelsemium, 283.
Generation, 93, 94.
Germ diseases, 237.
Gestation, period of, 94, 124.
Giving medicines, 245.
Giving anesthetics, 291.
Graafian vesicle, 75.
Granulations, healthy, 256.
Green sickness, 237.
Gum Arabic, 272, 315.
Hardening infants, 201.
—— nipples, 27.
Haunch bone, 57.
Head of the fœtus, 108.
Head presentations, 140.
Headache, 219, 354.
Health, 14.
Health of wives, 14.
Heartburn, 25, 336.
—— in pregnancy, 24.
Heat as a cause of disease, 197.
—— a symptom of inflammation, 115.
Hematuria and menorrhagia, 92, 341.
Hemoptysis, 341.
Hemorrhage, unavoidable, 193.
—— during labor, 193, 194.
—— internal, 194
—— post partem, 161.
—— from cuts and incisions, 255.
Hemorrhoids, 275, 360.
Herb teas, 317.
Home remedies for ague and fever, 277.
—— —— apoplexy, 279.
—— —— opthalmia, 275.
—— —— bronchitis, 276.
—— —— constipation, 275.
—— —— diarrhœa, 268.
—— —— dysentery, 269.
—— —— hysteria, 278.
—— —— pneumonia, 276.
—— —— scarlet fever, 278.
—— —— typhoid fever, 278.
Honey, 302.
Hop bitters, 356.
Hot baths, 248.
Hot foot baths, 298.
Hot water, 297.
How to breathe, 210.
How to cook rice, 323.
How to prepare arrow root, 322.
How to use injections, 351.
Hydrocyanic acid, poisoning by, 287.
Hyoscyamus, 283.
Hyperæmia,
Hysteria, 278.
Hypnotic suppositary, 352.
Ice, 235.
Ice bags, 235.
Iliac fossa, 57, 58.
Impacted feces, 142, 151.
Incised wounds, 254.
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