Hints to mothers : for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in room ; with an exposure of popular errors in connexion with those subjects

Front matter

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BOOKS OF REFERENCE

ON

Preface

TO

THE THIRD EDITION.

A considerable portion of the present edition has been re-written, several new chapters added, and the whole work revised with great care, and with an anxious desire to make it as useful as possible.

It has been a great object so to arrange the contents that they may be readily got at, and, to aid the reader still further, a copious index has been appended.

If any one should think that the author has entered too much into details, he has only to observe that this was done at the request of a missionary in Caffreland, and, from communications which have been received since the first edition was published, he cannot regret that he complied with the suggestion. Hence he wishes

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it to be distinctly remembered that he has not written merely for those who are within reach of good medical and surgical advice, but for those also whose lot has been cast in uncivilised places, and where they are totally unable to obtain professional assistance.

Some of the subjects introduced are necessarily touched upon in the writer’s “ Hints to Mothers : ” there they have, however, been only briefly alluded to ; to this work their more full exposition properly belongs.

Finsbury Square, 1848.

Contents

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON TIIE GREAT MORTALITY OF CHILDREN AND THE CONSEQUENT DUTY OF MOTHERS.

Chapter I. Maternal Nursing

Sect. Page

I. The Duty and Advantages of the Mother nursing her

II. Of Mothers who ought not to suckle - - 17

III. Rules for nursing the Infant - - - 22

IV. Rules for the Health of the Nursing Mother - 33

V. The injurious Effects to the Mother and Infant of

undue and protracted suckling - - - 43

VI. Of Weaning - - - - - 47

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Chap. II. Of Wet-nurses

Sect. Page

I. Choice of a Wet-nurse - - . -52

II. Diet of a Wet-nurse - - - - 55

III. Genera] Directions for the Management of a Wet-

Chap. III. Artificial Feeding

I. The Food suitable until the first Teeth appear - 63

II. The Food suitable after the first Teeth have appeared 72

Chap. IV

DIET OF CHILDHOOD, VIZ. FROM THE SECOND YEAR TO THE EIGHTH.

I. General Directions - - - - - 80

II. Animal food - - - - - 83

III. Vegetables - - - - - -87

IV. Sugar and Salt - - - - - 88

V. Fresh and dried Fruits and Sweetmeats - - 90

VI. Water, Wine, Beer, and Spirits - - - 94

Chap. V

GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS UP TO THE SECOND YEAR, AND OF CHILDREN UP TO THE EIGHTH.

I. Of the Apartments and Servants - - - 98

III. Bathing and Cleanliness - - - - 117

CONTENTS. ix

Sect. Page

IV. Clothing - 125

V. Air and Exercise - - - - - 1 32

HINTS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF DISEASE IN THE CHILD BY THE MOTHER.

Sect.

I. Signs of Health . 224

II. Signs of Disease - 224

III. Other circumstances which assist in the early detection

of Disease - 238

Chap. XI. Accidents And Diseases Which May Occur At Birth Or Soon

AFTER.

I. 'Still-born 245

II. Injuries received during Birth ... 250

III. Retention of the Urine and Motions - - 251

IV. Swelling of the 13 reasts .... 252

V. Inflammation of the Eyes .... 252

VII. Bleeding from the Navel-string - - -255

VIII. Ulceration and bleeding from the Navel - - 256

IX. Jaundice ______ 25s

X. Tongue-tied ..... 258

XI. Moles and Marks on the Skin ... 259

CONTENTS. XX

Chap. XII. Other Accidents Of Infancy And Childhood

Sect. Page

I. Scalds and Burns ----- 263

II. Swallowing boiling Water - 265

III. Bruises ------ 266

V. Broken Limbs - - - - - 269

VII. Foreign Bodies in the Ear and Nose - - 272

VIII. Choking ------ 274

IX. Stings of Insects ----- 276

Chap. XIII. Disorders Of The Stomach And Bowels Of Infants

I. In the Infant at the Breast - - - - 281

II. At the period of Weaning - - - - 285

III. In the Infant brought up by Hand - - - 289

IV. Maternal Management of these Disorders - - 289

Chap. XIV. Diseases Of Children

I. Colds and Coughs - - - - 295

II. Costiveness - - - - 297

III. Prolapsus or Protrusion of the Bowel - - SOI

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CONTENTS.

Sect.

VI. Thrush -

VII. Involuntary Discharge of Urine in the Nieht

VIII. Eruptions: ...

Red-gum .

Tooth rash

Sore ears ...

Milky scale ...

Nettle rash ...

Dandruff ...

Ringworm ...

IX. Inflammation and Abscess in the Ear

X. Deformities :

Of the feet ....

Of the chest ....

XI. Bleeding from the Nose .

XII. Chilblains ...

XIII. Scarlet Fever ....

XIV. Measles ....

XV. Small-pox ...

XVI. Chigken pox ...

XVII. Hooping Cough .

XVIII. Croup ....

XIX. Water in the Head ...

XX. Convulsions ....