The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.

  • Warrington, Joseph, -1888.
Date:
1839
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Credit: The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    chamber, if possible, during the first ten or fifteen days after delivery, that the atmo- sphere of the room may not be charged with any kind of effluvia; and the greatest possible care should be observed to have all the fumes of anthracite or charcoal carried off freely by the pipe or chimney. The fire and lamp should be kept as much as possible'from shining into the face of mo- ther or child; and a screen should be placed between the fire and that part of the room which they occupy. Several days should elapse before any strong rays of light are permitted to act upon the child's eyes, who should become gradually accustomed to mo- derate degrees of natural and artificial light. The bedsteads of modern construction are usually several inches too high, to be conve- nient for the purposes of the lying-in chamber, and those made in imitation of the French are almost totally unfit for use during deli- very. Those best adapted arc the ordinary high post, with rounded or octagonal posts, instead of the square pillar, which usually rises several inches above the frame of the