Incompatible marriages, 16. Incontinence of urine, 355. Indian meal gruel, 318. Indigestible food, 297. Inefficient action of uterus, 151. Infant, care of, 40. Infant feeding, 174. Infection, 238. Inflammation, symptoms of, local heat, 215. —— —— pain, 215. —— —— redness, 216. —— —— swelling, 216. —— —— tenderness, 214. —— general symptoms, skin, —— —— —— pulse, 223. —— terminations, resolution, 214. —— —— suppuration, 258. —— treatment of, general, 223. —— —— topical, 225. Inflammation of the breast, 165. Infusion of flaxseed, 315. Infusions, 317. Inhalations, 303. Injections, 298. Injections for the vagina, 351. Innominata, 56. Instructions to a woman before labor, 26. Instructions to nurses, labor, 147. —— tedious labor, 151, 178. —— breech presentations, 184. —— knee or foot presentations 185. —— shoulder, body or head presentations, 141. —— face, 141. —— inefficient action of the uterus, 151. —— excess of liquor amnii, 152, 179. —— powerless labor, 180. —— obstructed labor, 181. —— deformed pelvis, 182. —— adherent placenta, 161. —— placental presentation, 193 —— to wife and mother, 13. Instructions to nurse midwife, 145, 156, 192. —— to the mother before labor, 26. Internal organs of generation, 66. —— uterus, 65. —— Fallopian tubes, 67. —— ovaries, 68. —— vagina, 68. —— ligaments of the womb, 69. Introducing of catheter, 78. Introduction, 9. Inversion of uterus, 168. Ipecac, 271. Irritable uterus, 350. Irritation, 229. Itchings, 298. Jaundice, 176. Jelly water, 316. Joints of the pelvis, 59. Knee chest position, 80. Labor, difficult, 177. —— directions for conducting, 39, 149, 156. —— false, 34. —— true, symptoms of, 36. Lactation, 165. Laxatives, 343. Leeches, 229. Leucorrhœa, 351. Light, effects of, 46. Lightning, 290. Lineo ilio pectinea, 60. Liniments, 226. Liniment used in cerebro spinal meningetis, 357. Liquor amnii excessive, 152. Lister’s dressing, 166. Little ailments, 297. Lochia, profuse, 165. —— scanty, 164. —— fetid, 165. Lochial discharge, 45, 164. Locked jaw, 253. Longings in pregnancy, 19. Lotion for pruritis, 362. Lotion for tinea capitis, 359. Lotions, 357. Mad dog bites, 288. Mammary abscess, 166, 362. Mammary inflammation, 165. Manner of feeding infants, 313. Marriage should not be at too early an age, 14. Marshall Hall’s method, 289. Measles, 274. Meatus of the urethra, 64. Measures, 61. Mechanical phenomena of labor, 133. Mechanical presentations and positions, 135. —— how distinguished, 126. Meconium, 171. Meddlesome midwifery, 192. Medicines, classed, 331. —— in pregnancy, 28. Medicated bath, 250. Meningitis, 218. Menorrhagia symptoms and varieties, 92. —— treatment of, 93. Menses, cessation of, 73. Menstruation, retarded, 72. —— its disorders, 73. —— painful, 90, 91. —— profuse, 92.