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.

To the above a drop of oil of cinnamon may be added and it may be given in doses of one teaspoonful in lime water and milk, when cholera morbus is followed by diarrhœa and dysen...

But little pure milk can be obtained in cities, and a substitute may sometimes be used; but where good milk can be obtained, it may usually be made the principal food of young p...

It is my design in a subsequent part of this work, under the head of emergencies, to refer to those exceptional cases in which there is peculiar danger, where some prompt action...

A NATURAL LABOR has been described as one “in which the head presents, and descends regularly into the pelvis; where the progress is uncomplicated, and concluded by the natural...

The diseases last named were there mentioned because their distinctive character could be determined by the thermometer. They are, however, examples of the kind of cases that I...

I wish to give you so much instruction in regard to cases of difficult labor that you may at least be prepared to decide in any case when the services of a physician is indispen...

The fact that certain diseases are contagious is one that throws some grave responsibilities upon the nurse, and on account of the importance of the subject, I will here discuss...

Usually the nurse or the mother does not treat disease, or administer medicine except under the direction of a physician, and it is not always necessary for her to know the prin...

Symptoms are the signs by which we know that disease is present. Every circumstance happening in the body of the sick person capable of being perceived by himself or others, whi...

The nurse will receive from the medical man such directions as the peculiarities of the case seem to demand, but I deem it proper here to give some general instructions. First,...

Besides medicines, there are several handy articles which should be always kept ready in a clean drawer, should an emergency arise that demands their use. Have a little case con...

Generally the patient to be operated on should have a bath the previous night, and perhaps an enema on the morning of the operation; if the operation is on the female genital or...

The embryo first begins to be distinct about the _third_ week; is then about two lines long, weighing one to two grains; is surrounded by an amnion which lies loosely about it,...

FALSE PAINS occur most frequently in a first pregnancy, but most pregnant women have occasional pains, and these become more violent within three weeks of the full time. They ma...

In order to compress as much as possible what I say upon these topics, I shall consider here displacements of the uterus, both of those which occur in the pregnant and non-pregn...

The NAVAL is sometimes a little sore after the naval string comes away. It may be dressed by putting a little simple cerate or vaseline or carbolized cosmoline on lint or a line...

TRUE LABOR PAINS are distinguished from the false by the fact that they are felt considerably in the back, passing down to the thighs, and by their coming on at regular interval...

VARIATIONS FROM ORDINARY CONVALESCENCE will, under ordinary circumstances, receive necessary attention from the physician, but the skilled nurse should know as much about them a...

1. DO NOT TAKE TOO MUCH EXERCISE.—You may get relief from some of your ailments by lying down considerably during the day. If there is leucorrhœa (whites), strangury (a frequent...

When the expulsion of the fœtus takes place from the efforts of nature alone, the labor is called by some authors spontaneous or natural, but when art is obliged to interfere it...

The causes of disease are spoken of by authors as predisposing, and exciting. By proximate cause of disease is meant the cause of the symptoms present; this cannot appropriately...

A few of the early signs of pregnancy are not made available to the physician ordinarily when his opinion is demanded. A woman is naturally unwilling that her physician, if he b...

The first variety of cases of amenorrhœa are those where no menstrual fluid has ever been secreted. All girls, as we have seen, do not menstruate at fifteen years, as all childr...

It is not often that a correct diagnosis can be made of a disease by a single symptom, but there are marked and characteristic symptoms which indicate some diseases in children...

The cavity of the uterus and that of the pelvis form a continuous PASSAGE through which the child must be forced in its exit from the womb at birth. The uterus possesses the cha...

Menstruation is a periodical flow of blood having its source in the walls of the uterus. But menstruation is excited by and dependent upon ovulation, and the effective cooperati...

The nurse will not often prescribe medicine, but it may be of use to know how to read the prescriptions of others, and to know a few of the general rules or principles upon whic...

The formative organs of generation are situated within a large cavity, called the cavity of the pelvis, the walls of which are composed of bones and soft parts. This basin (in L...

The URETHRA is a membranous dilatable canal about an inch and a half in length, and directed obliquely from before backwards, and from below upwards, running under and behind th...

Generation is effected in the human species through the medium of the two sexes; to effect it there must be the actual contact of the male semen, or its spermatozoa, with a heal...

The physical treatment of children should begin, as far as may be practicable, with the earliest formation of the embryo. It will involve the conduct of the female even before h...

Pregnancy is not a disease. Many women enjoy better health during its continuance than any other time, and in general the pregnant woman is not quite as much exposed to contagio...

The ovum at maturity (and not impregnated) is described as being composed of the vitelline membrane, which seems like albumen in appearance, but is a thick, transparent membrane...

The cause of abortion may be in the ovum or in the mother, and it is more liable to occur at the beginning of each month corresponding to the menstrual period. The maternal caus...

There are no signs of a fruitful conjugation, which in all cases indicate to the woman that she is pregnant. Some few seem to know the exact time; in some instances there is fai...

It is my design in giving the following instructions to prepare the student of this work to be a skilled or skillful nurse, not to be simply a midwife; to act in conjunction wit...

If you attend a woman to whom the physician has already been called, you will thereafter be subject entirely to his orders. Whatever your opinion is, notwithstanding you have th...

From the nature of the subjects treated in this work, the information given becomes of interest to every woman, and is not intended for the nurse of lying-in women only. It is b...

What I shall say of PLURAL BIRTHS, and MONSTERS, of CHILDREN AFFECTED WITH HYDROCEPHALUS, OR ASCITES, of EXCESSIVE SIZE OF THE FŒTUS, of DEFECTS IN THE FORMATION OF THE FŒTUS, o...