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 connection with those subjects, and hints upon nursing / by Thomas Bull.

  • Bull, Thomas
Date:
1865
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Credit: 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 connection with those subjects, and hints upon nursing / by Thomas Bull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX A ABSCESS in the breast, 247 Abdomen, soreness and cracking of the skin of, during preg- nancy, 104 subsidence of, before labour, 166 Abstinence, use of, in the flatulence and griping of infancy, 306 After-birth, 193 After-pains, 194 Air, its importance to the nurse, 272 highly beneficial to the infant, 309, 329 Animal food, its injurious effects upon the young child; and the period when it may be first given, 304 Aperient liniment, 342 medicine, for the mother,'during pregnancy, 18 after labour, 197 infant after birth, 220 during infancy, 334 Areola of the breast, as a sign of pregnancy, 60 Arrow-root, how prepared for the child, 302 Artificial feeding, causes rendering it necessary, 293 the proper kind of artificial food before the first teeth appear, 293 • mode of preparing it, 294 ■ — administering it, 297 * quantity to be given, 299 frequency of giving it, 299 posture of the infant when fed, 300 proper kind after the first teeth have ap- peared, 301 —— kind of artificial food most suitable under the different complaints to which infants are liable, 306 Ass’s milk, 294