A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts

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Author

Crumpler, Rebecca Lee, 1831-1895

Title

A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two Parts

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RJ: Medicine: Pediatrics

Subject

Infants -- Care

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 65188

Release Date

April 29, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A BOOK OF Medical Discourses IN TWO PARTS . PART FIRST: TREATING OF THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF INFANTILE BOWEL COMPLAINTS, FROM BIRTH TO THE CLOSE OF THE TEETHING PERIOD, OR TILL AFTER THE FIFTH YEAR. PART SECOND: CONTAINING MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LIFE AND GROWTH OF BEINGS; THE BEGINNING OF WOMANHOOD; ALSO, THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF MANY OF THE MOST DISTRESSING COMPLAINTS OF WOMEN, AND YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION. — CHAPTER I. HOW TO MARRY.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. THE PRESENT MODES OF WASHING AND DRESSING THE NEW-BORN. — THE USE OF SOAP.
5. 5.CHAPTER III. PREPARATIONS FOR CONFINEMENT. — BORN WITH A CAUL.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. THE BETTER MODE OF WASHING THE NEW-BORN.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. NECESSITY OF AGREEABLE AND SOOTHING SURROUNDINGS.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. NURSING FROM THE BREAST MADE EASY.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. THE USELESSNESS OF “BABY MEDICINES” DURING THE MONTH.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. DROPPING OF THE NAVEL CORD.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. ARTIFICIAL NURSING.
12. 12.CHAPTER X. THE MILK FEVER.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. PRECAUTIONS AFTER THE MONTH.—PROPER AND IMPROPER DIET.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. GENERAL TREATMENT OF INFANTS.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. TIME FOR WEANING.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. — SECTION I. CHOLERA INFANTUM VERSUS STARVATION. — SIGNS OF STARVATION. — SECTION II. SYMPTOMS OF EMPTINESS OR STARVATION, WHICH MAY LEAD TO CHOLERA. — SECTION III. CHOLERA INFANTUM.—INFANTILE CHOLERA. — SECTION IV. GENERAL TREATMENT OF CHOLERA INFANTUM, MEDICAL AND DOMESTIC.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF CHOLERA INFANTUM.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. CONVENIENT METHODS FOR RAISING INFANTS WITHOUT THE BREAST.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. — SECTION I. TEETHING MADE EASY. — SECTION II. THE ORDER IN WHICH THE TEETH COME.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. COMPLICATIONS OF TEETHING WITH DISEASES. — WHOOPING-COUGH. — PNEUMONIA. — SORE THROAT, OR TONSILITIS. — WORMS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. GENERAL REMARKS.
22. 22.PART SECOND. — MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. — HUMAN LIFE. — WOMANHOOD — MORAL RESTRAINTS. — INTERNAL ORGANS OF WOMAN. — INFLAMMATION OF THE OVARIES. — RHEUMATISM. — SOFT BONES. — HEADACHE, — HEMORRHOIDS. — LEUCORRHŒA, OR WHITES. — FALLING OF THE WOMB. — CHANGE OF LIFE. — CATARRH—COLD IN THE HEAD. — BRONCHITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE AIR-TUBES WHICH LEAD TO THE LUNGS. — BURNS AND SCALDS. — CORNS, OR CALLOUS. — SORE THROAT. — DIPHTHERIA. — SCROFULOUS OR GLANDULAR SWELLINGS — TUMOR. FALSE GROWTHS — BRAIN FEVER. — FORMULA FOR MAKING DOCTRESS CRUMPLER’S VEGETABLE ALTERATIVE.
23. 23.NOTE.
24. 24.ERRATA.

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