The female's medical guide and married woman's adviser : containing a description of the causes, symptoms and cure of diseases peculiar to females, whether married or single, from early childhood to old age, such as retention, suppression and cessation of the menses - difficult and irregular menstruation - pregnancy, its indications and attendant diseases - miscarriage or abortion - midwifery, the turn of life -causes and cure of barrennness, and female complaints generally. The whole adapted to the private use of families / by H. B. Skinner.

  • Skinner, Henry Burchstead, active 1849.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The female's medical guide and married woman's adviser : containing a description of the causes, symptoms and cure of diseases peculiar to females, whether married or single, from early childhood to old age, such as retention, suppression and cessation of the menses - difficult and irregular menstruation - pregnancy, its indications and attendant diseases - miscarriage or abortion - midwifery, the turn of life -causes and cure of barrennness, and female complaints generally. The whole adapted to the private use of families / by H. B. Skinner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    1. Fifteen grains of magnesia, one drachm of tincture of columbo, and an ounce and a half of peppermint water. Take a swallow twice a day. 2. Or take a tumbler of warm chamomile tea, or warm water, before rising from bed ; it will induce immediate vomiting, and thus tranquillize the stom- ach, and lessen the morning attack. 3. Or take a mixture composed of rhubarb, car- bonate of soda, and peppermint, (pulverized,) in equal parts. [To a large teaspoonful add half a pint of boiling water; when cool, strain, sweeten with loaf sugar, and add a tablespoonful of brandy. Dose — A tablespoonful once or twice a day.] 4. A plaster of burgundy pitch, sprinkled over with powdered opium, and applied to the pit of the stomach, has been found of great service. It sub- dues the irritability of the stomach, and relieves the nausea. . When the stomach is very acid or bilious, take fifteen or twenty grains of magnesia in a wine-glass of milk, or a teaspoonful of powdered charcoal in a tablespoonful of lime water, or a tumbler of soda water ; or lemon-juice and water will ovrr- come acidity when alkalies fail. Either of the above remedies may be safely used. Take care to keep the bowels open by a gentle dose of epsom salts taken every second morning Take a light but nutritious diet, and gentle ex ercise in the former part of the day. 2. Heartburn. Heartburn is a very common complaint of preg- nancy, and occurs early after conception ; soro**- times, however, not till after the fourth month; and occasionally is absent altogether.