Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labor, and suckling.

  • Chavasse, Pye Henry, 1810-1879.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labor, and suckling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Advice to a Wife. A good wife is Heaven*a last, best gift to man—his angel and min- ister of graces innumerable—his gem of many virtues—his casket of jewels. Her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life ; her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares, and her prayers the ablest advocate of Heaven's blessings on his head.—Jeremy Taylor. Of earthly goods, the best is a good Wife ; • A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.—SlMONIDES. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 1. It may be well—before I enter on the subjects of menstruation, of pregnancy, of labor, and suckliug —to offer a few preliminary observations, especially addressed to a Young Wife. 2. My subject is health—the care, the restoration, and the preservation of health—one of the most glori- ous subjects that can be brought before a human being, and one that should engross much of our time and of our attention, and one that cannot be secured unless