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.

  • 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If this irritable state of the stomach is connected with a disordered condition of the digestive or- gans, the sickness will be accompanied with the presence of bile in the matter vomited, a furred tongue, confined or irregular action of the bowels, and occasionally with what is termed 'a sick head- ache.' These symptoms are to be relieved by medicines which thoroughly clear out the bowels, allay the irritability of the stomach, and after- wards by those which restore tone to both. But it is to be observed that the folloAving directions are only intended to apply to those simple cases in which, whether necessary or not, women never think of consulting their medical adviser, and for which it is certainly desirable that they should have some judicious directions, rather than be left entirely without them. If these symptoms be- come at all aggravated, it is requisite that they \ should make immediate application for professional advice. j The bowels will need, in the first instance, a i draught composed of infusion of senna and Epsom salts—the common ' black draught'—with half a drachm of the tincture of henbane in addition. ■ This, with five grains of blue pill, most probably effects the object desired; the bowels will be well purged, and the tongue become clean. The nest thing is to allay the irritability of the stomach, which is to be accomplished by the means already pointed out—either the effervescing drauo-ht of soda, the magnesia, or the chamomile