Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in roomLongman & Company, 1837 - 174 páginas |
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Hints to Mothers on the Management of Health During the Period of Pregnancy ... Thomas Bull (M.D.) Visualização integral - 1839 |
Hints to Mothers on the Management of Health During the Period of Pregnancy ... Thomas Bull (M.D.) Visualização integral - 1839 |
Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy ... Thomas Bull (M.D.) Visualização integral - 1837 |
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Página i - Hints to Mothers, for the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room: With an Exposure of Popular Errors in connexion with those subjects, &c.
Página 18 - ... We habitually take more food than is strictly required for the demands of the body ; we therefore daily make more blood than is usually wanted for its support. A superfluity amply sufficient for the nourishment of the child is thus furnished — for a very small quantity is requisite — without the mother, on the one hand, feeling the demand to be oppressive, and on the other, without a freer indulgence of food being necessary to provide it. Nature herself corroborates this opinion; indeed,...
Página 20 - ... capricious, let her not be persuaded to humor and feed its waywardness from the belief that it is necessary so to do; for if she does, she may depend upon it, from such indulgence, it will soon require a larger and more ample supply than is compatible with her own health or that of her little one. "If the general health before pregnancy was delicate and feeble, and, as a consequence of this state, becomes invigorated, and the powers of digestion increase, a larger supply of nourishment is demanded,...
Página 20 - Lastly, a woman, toward the conclusion of pregnancy, should be particularly careful not to be persuaded to eat in the proportion of two persons, for it may not only bring on vomiting, heartburn, constipation, etc., but will contribute, from the accumulation of impurities in the lower bowel, to the difficulties of labor.
Página 18 - It is sufficient for me to remark, that we habitually take more food than is strictly required for the demands of the body; we therefore daily make more blood than is really wanted for its support: a superfluity amply sufficient for the nourishment of the child is thus furnished — for a very small quantity is...
Página 49 - A young Chipewyan had separated from the rest of his band, for the purpose of trenching beaver, when his wife, who was his sole companion, and in her first pregnancy, was seized with the pains of labour. She died on the third day, after she had given birth to a boy. The husband was inconsolable, and vowed in his anguish, never to take another woman to wife; but his grief was soon in some degree absorbed in anxiety for the fate of his infant son.
Página 50 - The old man kept his vow in never taking a second wife himself, but he delighted in tending his son's children, and when his daughter-in-law used to interfere, saying, that it was not the occupation of a man, he was wont to reply, that he had promised to the great Master of Life, if his child was spared, never to be proud, like the other Indians.
Página 14 - In every one of 2000 cases of labour, as soon as the woman was delivered, he inquired of her, whether she had been disappointed in any object of her longing; and, if she replied in the affirmative, what it was; — whether she had been surprised by any circumstance...
Página 19 - If the appetite in the earlier months, from the presence of morning sickness, is variable and capricious, let her not be persuaded to humor and feed its waywardness from the belief that it is necessary to do so ; for if she does, she may depend upon it, from such indulgence, it will soon require a larger and more ample supply than is compatible with her own health or that of her little one. "If the general health, before pregnancy, was delicate and feeble, and, as. a consequence...
Página 15 - I would ask, why should we be surprised at some irregularities on the skin, and other parts of the human body, since ~we see the same thing occurring daily throughout the animal and vegetable world ? They have their moles, their discolourations, their excrescences, their unnatural shapes, which resemble animals and other bodies, which it certainly would not be very philosophical to ascribe to any effort of the imagination...