A Book of Medical Discourses: in Two PartsReprint of the original, first published in 1883. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
How to Marry | 5 |
The Present Modes of Washing and Dressing the Newborn | 7 |
Preparations for Confinement II | 11 |
The Better Mode of Washing the Newborn | 14 |
Necessity of Agreeable and Soothing Surroundings | 18 |
Nursing from the Breast made easy | 20 |
The Uselessness of Baby Medicines during the Month | 25 |
Precautions after the Proper and Improper Dict | 45 |
General Treatment of Infants | 52 |
Time for Weaning | 57 |
Sects 1 2 3 4 Cholera Infantum ersus Star vation | 61 |
The Causes and Prevention of Chotera Infantum | 76 |
Teething made easy Secs 1 2 | 90 |
Complications of Teething with Diseases | 98 |
General Remarks | 105 |
Dropping of the Navel Cord | 32 |
Artificial Nursing | 36 |
The Milk Fever | 40 |
Part Second Miscel aneous Information | 120 |
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