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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    Delicacy of Constitution, connected with habits of indulgence, may give rise to a state of health producing miscarriage. In high and fashionable life, among those who use little exercise, live luxu- riously, and sleep in soft, warm beds, there is more danger of miscarriage than among the common o o o people. Lastly, a peculiarly excitable state of constitu- tion, continuing to be unwell during pregnancy, advancement in life before marriage, piles in an inflamed state, as also severe and large loss of blood from their rupture, — these, and some other causes, may give rise to this accident. 4. The Means to be adopted for its Prevention. Having thus briefly reviewed the principal causes which may excite miscarriage, we proceed to con- sider the means to be adopted for its prevention. ]. The plan to be adopted by a female of deli- cate and feeble health and spare habit: — Before she again becomes pregnant, her object ought to be to invigorate her general health. This is to be accomplished, first, by attention to the stomach and bowels. The diet must be small in quantity at first, but nutritious in quality—mild animal food, as boiled chicken or white game, mutton and beef. These must be well masticated, and therefore eaten slowly. Coffee, with brown sugar, and brown bread, not toasted, and a new-laid egg, are best adapted for breakfast; and coffee, in preference to tea, in the evening. Rest, for a couple of hours, is certainly necessa- ry ; but the time should be employed in conversa-