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
—— lambdoidal, 108.
Sweating, excessive, 298.
Symphasis pubis, 61.
Symptomotology, 196.
Symptoms of disease, subjective, 204, 206.
—— —— objective, 206.
—— —— character of the pain, 205.
—— —— tenderness, 205.
—— —— itching, 205.
—— —— nausea, 205.
—— —— thirst, 206.
—— —— the pulse, 306.
—— —— —— temperature, 208, 215.
—— —— —— respiration, 209.
—— asthma, 217
—— hydrocephalus, 218, 219.
—— hysteria, 278.
—— earache, 218.
—— brain affections, 219.
—— chorea, 219, 217.
—— bronchitis, 220.
—— sunstroke, 280.
—— inflammation, 214.
—— poisoning, 282.
Syncopes fainting, 270, 281.
Syrup of ipecac, 267, 271.
Table tea, 320.
Table of abbreviations, &c., 330.
Tampons, 80, 81.
Tartar whey, 317.
Tar water, 45, 300.
Teething, 296.
Tedious labor, 151, 178.
Temperature of the patient, 207.
—— —— sick room, 213.
—— —— baths, 248.
—— how taken, 208.
Temperaments, 16.
Temperate bath, 248.
Tepid baths, 248.
Tetanus, 253.
The first few months after marriage, 16.
Thermometer, 276.
Throat diseases, 264.
Tenderness, 253.
Terminations of inflammation, 215.
Tin, poisoning by, 285.
Tieing the cord, 39.
Tinea capitis or scald head, 359.
Tincture of iodine, 228.
Thirst, 44.
Thrush, 175.
Tongue, coated, 220.
Treatment of infantile diseases, 217.
Treatment of inflammation in emergencies, 224.
—— —— —— in the incipient stages, 223.
—— —— —— by veratrium, 224.
—— —— —— by aperients, 224.
—— —— —— by opium, 224.
—— —— —— by counter irritants, 225.
—— —— —— by vesicants, 225.
—— —— —— by topical applications, 225.
—— —— —— by liniment, 226.
—— —— —— by mustard, 226.
—— —— —— by blisters and cupping, 227.
—— —— —— by leeches, 229.
—— —— —— by fomentations, 231.
Toast, 322.
Toast water, 316.
Tonics, 355.
Tonic in neuralgia, 356.
Toothache drops, 354.
Touch, 126.
Turn of life, 72.
Tuber ischii, 58.
Tubercular phthisis, 277.
Typhoid fever, 278.
Typhus fever, 278.
Ulcer, gastric, 334.
Umbilical cord, 101.
Umbilical artery and vein, 101, 111.
Undilatable os uteri, 154.
Urethra, 64.
Urinary and generative organs, 65.
Urine, incontinence of, 355.
—— retention of, 47.
—— should be examined, 29.
Uses of the pelvis, 63.
Uterine derangements, 65.
Uterus, description of, 65, 66, 67, 70.
—— displacement of, 76.
—— antiflexion of, 84.
—— anti-version of, 85.
—— retroflexion of, 83.
—— retroversion of, 85, 81.
—— prolapsis of, 77.
Utero gestation, 95.
Vagina, 68, 142.
Vaginal cystocele, 142, 182.
Vaginal injection, 351.
Vaginal touch, 140.
Vapor baths, 248.
Vegetable soup, 321.
Ventilation, 20, 212.
Ventilation of bedrooms, 213.
Veratrium viride, 224, 265.
Versions of the uterus, 85.
Vesical calculi, 142.
Vesicants, 225, 227.
Vinegar whey, 315.
Vomiting, 324.
Vomiting in pregnancy, 22.
Warm baths, 248.
Warm water, effects of, 250.
Washing the child, 40, 52.
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