Letters to a mother, on the management of herself and her children in health and disease; embracing the subjects of pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, food, exercise, bathing, clothing, etc., etc.; with remarks on chloroform / By J.T. Conquest.

  • Conquest, John Tricker.
Date:
[1850]
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Credit: Letters to a mother, on the management of herself and her children in health and disease; embracing the subjects of pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, food, exercise, bathing, clothing, etc., etc.; with remarks on chloroform / By J.T. Conquest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    inseparable to the giving birth to a child. Relieved, then, from anxious solicitude and fears as to future sufferings, she has only to beware that her conduct shall be characterised by no excess, either physical or moral. Obedient to a natural appetite, let her not readily yield to indulgence in any articles of food, which, in her usual state, she has found to be injurious. During pregnancy, her food should be such is light, mode- rately nutritious, and of easy digestion. All stimulants should be avoided, because the vascular and nervous systems are already too highly excited; and though the sensations consequent on this state of excitement are those of lassitude, which prompts the pregnant woman to have recourse to wdne and other stimulants, she should be informed, that although by the use of fermented fluids she may obtain immediate and tempo- rary relief, still the consequence will be, that her languor must be augmented after the first effects of the stimulant have ceased, and that her subsequent weari- ness will just be proportioned to her previous excite- ment. The earhest and most authoritative record that we have, tells us that the mother of Samson was prohibited by the angel of the Lord from diinking wdne or strong drink during pregnancy. (Judges xiii. 4, 7,14.) A woman in this state should know that the worst consequences arise from pandering to a de-