The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and MotherNapheys, George H. (George Henry)
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The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
Napheys, George H. (George Henry)
Women -- Health and hygiene
Pregnancy, 167
bathing during, 212
care of health during, 207
causes of protracted, 205
can a woman again become pregnant during, 192
clothing during, 209
diseases of, 352
double, 192
effect of, on the health, 216
exercise during, 210
food during, 208
influence of, on the milk of nursing mother, 250
length of, 200
relation of husband and wife during, 216
signs and symptoms of, 168
sleep during, 213
ventilation of sleeping-room during, 212
Premature marriages, 50
Preparations for confinement, 219
Prolific wives, 115
Puerperal mania, 362
Qualities transmitted by parents, 132
Quantity of milk required by infant, 256
Quickening, as a sign of pregnancy, 170
flatulence mistaken for, 172
how caused, 171
time of, 171
Race, the human, is it degenerating?, 348
Races, mixture of, 71
Relation of husband and wife during pregnancy, 216
nursing, 264
Relative age of man and wife, 76
proportion of men and women living, 153
Religion, mistaken notions of, 57
Rest, after delivery, 241
during pregnancy, 211
Re-vaccination, 286
Right time of the month to marry, 87
time of the year to marry, 87
Schooling, the, of the first seven years of life, 316
Scrofulous diseases, a cause of, 309
Second marriages, 62
Secret bad habits, 39
Self-deceptions regarding pregnancy, 172
Senses, training of the special, in childhood, 318
Sex of child, how to predict before birth, 198
Sexes, distinction of, 18
laws which determine the relative numbers of the, 155
persons of both and of neither, 20
production of, at will, 157
Sexual desire, indulgence and restraint of, 99
moderation in, 100
instinct, dignity and propriety of, 96
false notions about, 97
desire, influence of on offspring, 98
Sexuality, what it implies, 18
Sickness, morning, during pregnancy, 353
during labor, 225
Signs of approaching labor, 223
puberty, 30
conception, 128
over-nursing, 265
pregnancy, 168
Sight, the training of, in childhood, 319
Single life, the, 386
in its relation to sanity and mortality, 57
Skin, changes in, during pregnancy, 174
culture, of, in infancy, 306
Sleep, amount required in early life, 295
at puberty, 42
during pregnancy, 213
position in, 299
Sleeplessness during pregnancy, 360
Small pox, death rate from, 283
the only preventive against, 284
Son or daughter?, 198
Sore nipples, 246
Soup, Liebig's, 289
Sphere of woman, 21
Spinal disease, 36
Spring-time, 101
Spurious labor pains, 225
Stages of labor, 123
Starvation of girls, 41
Sterility, 106
how to remedy, 113
Still-births, 240
Stilling Jung, anecdote of, 67
Stimulation of the emotions, dangers of, at puberty, 29
St. Pierre, anecdote of, 78
Sully Raymond, anecdote of, 401
Swimming, benefit of, 306
Symbolism of the human body, 83
Syringes, and how to use them, 379
Talent, hereditary, 141
Teething, period of, 279
Temperament, transmission of, 137
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