Confinement, bed for, 226 day of, how to calculate, 206 dress for, 227 hints for attendants at, 229 imprudence after, 240 preparations for, 219 Constipation of pregnancy, 358 Constitution, effect of the, on puberty, 21 on change of life, 398 Consumption, 41, 71, 94, 148, 151 Continence demanded from husbands, 121 Cough of pregnancy, 359 Count, how to make the, 206 Country life, effect of, on puberty, 29 Courtship, 65 Cousins, shall they marry?, 69 Crime of abortion, 122 Croup, home treatment of, 325 Culture of the skin, 306 Dangers of puberty, 35 Daughters, influenced by fathers, 144 Deformities, are they hereditary?, 139 Degeneracy, cause of, 349 of the human race, a query, 348 Diet for infants, 274, 288 children, 292 the pregnant, 208 Diarrhœa during pregnancy, 357 of infants, 339 Directions for mothers who cannot nurse their own children, 267 Dignity and propriety of the sexual instinct, 96 Disease, communication of, 80 Diseases, hereditary, 148 of children, home management of, 325 of wives and mothers, 352 Distinction of the sexes, 18 Divorce, unnatural and improper, 63 Dress, attention to, during pregnancy, 209 for confinement, 227 Dressing of the new-born child, 231 Drying up of the milk, 258, 279 Duration of labor, 239 Dyspepsia of children, 342 Ear, the hygiene of, in childhood, 323 Education, influence of, over hereditary qualities, 147 of the child in the womb, 191 special senses in children, 318 Emotion, influence of, on unborn child, 185 Emotions, stimulation of, effects of, on puberty, 29 Engagement, the, 85 Engagements, long, 86 Epilepsy, a cause of, 255 Eruptions of childhood, how to prevent, 106 Eternity of love, 60 Exercise at puberty, 42 during pregnancy, 210 of children, 309 Excessive child-bearing, 115 Eyes, the education of, in childhood, 319 Falling of the womb, 368 False labor pains, 225 Fathers, influence of, on daughters, 144 Feeding of infants, manner of, 291 Fertility, hereditary, 138 laws of, 109 First application of child to breasts, 232 cares to the child newly born, 231 mother after childbirth, 230 labors, 51 seven years of life, 314 Fits of children, home treatment of, 330 Flat nipples, how to remedy, 245 Food, during pregnancy, 207 of infants and children, 288 bill of fare for, 292 Foreigners, should native women marry, 73 Form, to preserve after confinement, 242 Frigidity, 109 Galen, anecdote of, 127 Games and plays, advantages of, 314 Gardner, Lord, the case of, 202 Garters, danger of, during pregnancy, 355 Gathered breasts, 382 Goftr, story of, 166 Government of children, hints on, 344 Green sickness, 36 Growth of children, 287 Habits, dangers and advantages of, 316 Hair, its significance, 84 transmission of, 137 Hardening of infants, dangerous theories on the, 303 Hearing, the training of, in children, 323 Head colds of children, home treatment of, 329