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
—— disorders incident to, 22, 139.
—— duration of, 124.
Premature infants, 54.
—— labor, 120.
Premonitory symptoms of labor, 126.
Preparation for labor, the bed, 37.
—— —— —— —— dress, 37.
—— —— —— —— room, 38.
—— of food, 309.
Presentation of the face, 141, 183.
—— —— feet or knees, 185.
—— —— head, 140.
—— —— shoulder, 185, 187.
—— —— side, 185, 187.
—— —— superior extremities, 141, 185.
Presentation and positions, 135, 126.
Process of generation, 93.
Procidentia, 76.
Profuse menstruations, 92.
Prolapsis, 76.
Pruritis vulva, 26, 362.
Puberty, the age of, 71.
—— the change it works, 71,.
Pubis, 58.
Puerperal convulsions, 194.
Puerperal mania, 169.
Puerperal septicemia, 169.
Pulse. The rate, 206.
—— —— regularity, 207.
—— —— hardness, 207.
Pure air, 211.
Purgatives, 342.
Pus, 166.
Pies, 313.
Pyemia, 253.
Qualities transmitted by parents, 315.
Quickening, 116.
Quinsy, 275.
Quiet after confinement, 43.
Recipes for sick cookery, 314.
Reckoning, how to make the, 124.
Regimen, 262, 302.
Remedies for common use, 262.
Remedies to prevent costiveness, 302.
Removal of the placenta, 39.
Reproduction, 93.
Restorative soup for invalids, 324.
Respiration, 209.
—— a diagnostic symptom, 210.
Retention of the urine, 47, 152, 174.
Retroflexion of the uterus, 83.
Rheumatism, 335, 347, 353.
Rice gruel, 318.
Rice cream, 319.
Rickets, 218, 219.
Rigid os uteri, 154.
Rigid perineum, 155.
Rigor mortis, 242.
Ringworm, 362.
Rubeola, measles, 274.
Rules in nursing, 243.
Rules of diet for convalescents, 310.
Rupture of the naval, 170.
Sacrum, 55.
Sage tea, 316.
Sagittal suture, 108.
Salt water, 299, 300.
Sanguinaria powder, 263.
Saucepans, 310.
Scalds, 292.
Scarlatina or scarlet fever, 278.
Sciatica, 335.
Secretion of milk, 165.
Sedatives, 224, 353.
Septicemia, 169.
Setons, 229.
Shock, 163.
Show, a sign of labor, 128.
Shower bath, 201.
Sick headache, 270.
Sick room, 38.
Signs of approaching labor, 35, 127
Signs of death, 242.
Signs of pregnancy, 113, 118.
Size of the pelvis, 61.
Size of the fœtus, 106.
—— —— —— head, 107.
Skilled nursing, 145.
Sleep during pregnancy, 21.
—— position in, 21.
Sleeping rooms, 20, 212.
Sleeplessness, 303.
Slight hurts and ailments, 295.
Slippery elm bark tea, 316.
Soda and water, 301.
Soda mint, 338.
Solution of chlorinated soda, 351.
Sore mouth, 175.
Sore nipples, 27, 359, 360.
Soup, 312, 321, 324.
Sour stomach, 270, 336.
Sour milk, 311.
Spirit vapor bath, 249.
Sponge baths, 45, 249.
Sponges, 252.
Sprains, 297.
Spurious labor pains, 124.
Stays, 19.
Strangury, 302.
Strapping, 254.
Stupes, 231.
Subacute rheumatism, 353.
Suckling the child, 48.
Summer complaints, 268.
Sunstroke, 280.
Suppositories, 173, 352.
Surgical cases, 251.
Surgical nursing, 251.
Sutures, sagittal, 108.
—— coronal, 108.
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