Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Hillie Plantinga and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's notes: Seven typographical errors have been corrected: Page 8, "15" changed to "18" (See Fig. 18) Page 208, "5" changed to "7" (See Fig. 7) Page 281, "does" changed to "dose" (Give a big dose of castor oil) Page 306, "he" changed to "be" (which should be covered with a single thickness) Page 348, "iself" changed to "itself" (than by the bite itself) Page 362, "dioxid" changed to "dioxide" (harmless substances as water and carbon dioxide) Page 435, "ecezmatous" changed to "eczematous" (to keep the eczematous skin area moist) [Illustration] THE MOTHER AND HER CHILD BY WILLIAM S. SADLER, M. D. PROFESSOR OF THERAPEUTICS, THE POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO; DIRECTOR OF THE CHICAGO INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS; FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO MEDICAL SOCIETY; THE ILLINOIS STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY; THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, ETC. AND LENA K. SADLER, M. D. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE CHICAGO INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS; FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO MEDICAL SOCIETY; THE MEDICAL WOMEN'S CLUB OF CHICAGO; NATIONAL CONGRESS OF MOTHERS AND PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION; THE CHICAGO WOMAN'S CLUB, ETC. _ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration] TORONTO McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART CHICAGO: A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1916 Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1916 * * * * * Published August, 1916 * * * * * _Copyrighted in Great Britain_ W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO TO "BILLY" WHO, BECAUSE OF HIS UNCONSCIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ITS PRACTICAL FEATURES, SHOULD BE REGARDED AS A CO-AUTHOR, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY HIS PARENTS THE AUTHORS PREFACE For many years the call for a book on the mother and her child has come to us from patients, from the public, and now from our publishers--and this volume represents our efforts to supply this demand. The larger part of the work was originally written by Dr. Lena K. Sadler, with certain chapters by Dr. William S. Sadler, but in the revision and re-arrangement of the manuscript so much work was done by each on the contributions of the other, that it was deemed best to bring the book out under joint authorship. The book is divided into three principal parts: Part I, dealing with the experience of pregnancy from the beginning of expectancy to the convalescence of labor: Part II, dealing with the infant from its first day of life up to the weaning time; Part III, taking up the problems of the nursery from the weaning to the important period of adolescence.