Tokology

Painless childbirth--Testimony of travelers, missionaries and physicians--Sufferings in childbirth greater in this country than in any other--Is this a curse upon woman?--Indian...

Indigestion a common ailment--Starch and fats the prime cause of dyspepsia--Children’s food is given to the pigs--Morning sickness--Is it a natural symptom?--Biliousness, what i...

Most women suffer from constipation--Causes--Hot bread--White flour--Baking powders--Errors in dress--Cathartic drugs--Treatment--Wally and the Lockport entire wheat bread--Whea...

Congenial surroundings--Overtaxed mothers--An old lady’s story--An every-day experience--Lucrative work--An author’s interesting testimony--Prophecy for the future--Dress and fa...

The water cure mania--The “ounce of prevention”--“A coat of mail”--The sitz-bath the very best bath for a pregnant woman--Fomentations--Save doctors’ visits--Hot water bottles--...

Avoid fats and sweets--The chemist’s theory--Proper food prevents pain in childbirth--Mrs. Rowbotham’s experience--Marvelously easy labor and rapid recovery--Interesting testimo...

Motion a law of nature--Nest building--Home labor delights the heart--Contact with the earth a “cure-all”--Waist breathing--Educate the muscles--Massage--Muscle beater--Military...

Rights of children--Popular theories--Social evil--Who are the prostitutes?--Touching experience--Lessons for husbands--Theory of continence--A New Testament Lesson--Continence...

A pregnant woman breathes for two--Open fire places in sleeping rooms--Charcoal pit easily constructed--Fresh air in bedrooms--Drafts--Cold air not pure air--The nose a sentinel...

What are labor pains?--Stages of labor--Bag of waters--Necessary preparations--Directions for making the bed--Management during the first stage--Meddlesome midwifery--Cutting th...

Daily bath--Compress--Sitz-bath--Very best food--Cases in Home of the Friendless--No need of milk fever--Abscess of the breast--Excoriated nipples--Insufficient milk--Drink new...

A new being--Need of rest--An oil bath--Dressing the navel--Clothing--Useful suggestions--Habits of cleanliness can be secured--Nursing--Mother’s milk the natural food--Best art...

Nine-tenths of American women have these maladies--Common-sense hints--Inflammation--Mental sufferings--A cause of insanity--Ulceration--Induration--Errors in dress and diet--Si...

Nearly two hundred recipes, including: Drinks for the sick--Gruels--Jellies--Bread--Gems--Toast--Puddings--Eggs--Oysters and miscellaneous dishes--The outgrowth of experience on...

“I know of no country, no tribe, no class, where childbirth is attended with so much pain and trouble as in this country.” Thus replied a traveler who had been many years in for...

THE OVARIES (Plates II and VI) are two almond-shaped bodies, situated about two and one-half inches distant on either side of the uterus. They are inclosed in the broad ligament...

CESSATION OF MENSTRUATION in a married woman may ordinarily be considered a sign that conception has taken place. Yet suppression may be the result of cold, of inflammation, of...

The most common ailments of pregnancy are dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting, constipation, headache, heartburn, flatulence, salivation, diarrhœa, piles, greedy appetite, loss of appet...

CONSTIPATION OF THE BOWELS is not only a frequent attendant upon pregnancy, but is a common ailment of both men and women. From year to year this symptom is on the increase, unt...

If caused by uterine irritation, there will be burning pain in the top of the head or at the base of the brain, accompanied by great soreness, which the patient describes as a _...

What more charming sight than a rosy, robust young woman! Full of vigor, life, strength, power; her step elastic, bounding, her face radiant, her presence magnetic! To such ther...

FREQUENT BATHING in pregnancy is of the greatest importance. When the “water cure” fever first ran like wild-fire through the country, many were alarmed lest the child-bearing w...

PROPER FOOD in pregnancy is not more necessary for health and strength of the mother, than for giving normal development to the child. If the food does not afford suitable nouri...

_Motion is a law of nature._ All animal life is full of activity. Remaining quietly in closely heated rooms frequently causes disease in the pregnant woman. Without exercise, fo...

Many years ago during a visit to my cousin, a young married woman called with her four months old baby--a thin-necked, bloodless, blue looking child. After she left, cousin obse...

_The pregnant woman breathes for two._ While pure air is desirable for all persons under every condition, it is doubly so for her. Nothing is more essential to the healthful nou...

The hour arrives, the moment wished and feared; The child is born by many a pang endured! And now the mother’s ear has caught his cry; Oh! grant the cherub to her asking eye!

Presence of mind, with the knowledge given in the preceding chapter, will enable even an inexperienced person, in the chance absence of the doctor, to conduct a case of natural...

Proper bathing and diet are as essential after as before confinement. At least once a day the patient requires a bath. Ordinarily use tepid water. Sponge and dry a portion of th...

FOR EXCESSIVE FLOW OF MILK, once or twice a day use hot fomentations upon the breast, and apply cosmoline, in which there is a trace of camphor. Avoid salt and liquid food. Wear...

No wonder that so great a wealth of maternal love is called forth in administering to such helplessness! No wonder that the mother’s heart is humbled at the greatness of her mis...

The diseases herein treated are mainly those for which a physician is seldom called. A few suggestions are also added upon those in which the severity of the attack necessitates...

Worms--_Thread or pin worms_ and _round worms_ are most common. _Thread-worms_ are about half an inch in length, white in color, and move rapidly. They are found in the anus or...

Abortion or miscarriage is the term applied to the death and expulsion of the fetus previous to six months; after that and before full term it is called premature delivery.

Menstruation is the sanguineous flow accompanying the maturation of the ovum in the ovaries. It generally occurs regularly every twenty-eight days, and in temperate climates con...

UTERINE DISEASES are the cause of many of the pathological symptoms accompanying pregnancy, and may be the cause of the pain in parturition. To attain to the best conditions for...

CHANGE OF LIFE is one of the scape-goats of physicians and bugbears of patients. If any lady from thirty-five to fifty-five years of age is afflicted with dyspepsia, neuralgia,...

In what thou eatest and drinkest, seek from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, So mayest thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother’s lap; or be wi...