The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother - George H. Napheys

[P. 202.] Gardner Peerage Case.—Dr. Bedford, System of Obstetrics, p. 299.

[P. 204.] Prolonged Pregnancies.—Taylor, Medical Jurisprudence, p. 586; Report of Proceedings against the Rev. Fergus Jardine (Edinburgh, 1839).

[P. 207.] Care of Health During Pregnancy.—Churchill, On Women, p. 451; Menville, ii. 114; Tilt's Elements of Health, p. 271.

[P. 236.] To Have Labor Without Pain.—Professor T. Gaillard Thomas says, 'The rule should be to employ an anæsthetic in every case of labor, during the second stage, unless some contra-indication exists. After a delivery, under its influence patients recover more rapidly, are freer from complications, and show fewer signs of prostration.' See Lecture on the Management of Women after Parturition, in the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, February, 1869, p. 145.

[P. 238.] Weight and Length of New-born Children—Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, vol. xix. p. 388; Carpenter, Human Physiology, p. 810; Ramsbotham, Obstetrics, p. 111; Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, March, 1869, p. 150.

[P. 271.] The Child.—Dr. J. Lewis Smith, A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, 1869, p. 28 et seq.; Dr. Thomas Hillier, Clinical Treatise on the Diseases of Children, p. 17; Dr. Edward Smith, Cyclical Changes in Health and Disease; Dr. John Marshall, Outlines of Physiology, Human and Comparative, pp. 761, 765, 998; Dr. Charles A. Cameron, Lectures on the Preservation of Health, 1868, p. 174; Dr. Charles J. B. Williams, Principles of Medicine, p. 480; Dr. J. Forsyth Meigs, Diseases of Children; Dr. E. J. Tilt, Elements of Health and Principles of Female Hygiene, p. 50 et seq.; Dr. Andrew Combe, The Management of Infancy, p. 73 et seq. (ninth ed. Edinburgh, 1860), Report of Board of Health of Philadelphia for 1868, p. 43; British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, April 1868, pp. 382, 454; Southern Journal of the Medical Sciences, November, 1867, p. 555; Dr. Thomas Hawkes Tanner, Practice of Medicine, p. 108; Dr. William A. Hammond, Treatise on Hygiene, p. 95 et seq.; Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, vol. xvi. p. 530, xix. pp. 37, 59, 119, 134, 382; Edward C. Seaton, M.D., A Hand-Book of Vaccination; Professor J. B. Fonssagrives, L'Education Physique des Filles; Le Rôle des meres dans les maladies des Enfants; Sir James Y. Simpson, Selected Obstetrical and Gynecological Works, etc., etc.

INDEX.

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Abdomen, changes in, during pregnancy, [173]
pain in, during pregnancy, [355]
Abortion, crime of, how to stop, [122]
evils of, [123]
Advantages of the games and plays of children, [314]
Advice to wives who desire to have children, [113]
After birth, [230]
Age of husband, [75]
nubility, [50]
puberty, [23], [25]
Air and ventilation during infancy, [307]
Air space required in bed-room, [94]
Anger, effect of, on the mother's milk, [252]
Appetite, depraved, a sign of pregnancy, [175]
Approaching labor, signs of, [223]
Arrowroot, how to prepare, for children, [275], [291]
Articles wanted for confinement, [221]
Atavism explained, [133]
Attendants during confinement, hints for, [229]
Avoidance of hereditary tendencies, [151]
'Bad-getting-up,' causes of, [241]
Bandage after confinement, how to make, [221]
how to apply, [230]
Barrenness, its causes and cure, [106]
Bath, hour of, for infants, [303]
drying of the skin after, [304]
during pregnancy, [212]
value of, in infantile diseases, [305]
Beautiful children, how to have, [140]
Beauty, inheritance of, [135]
Bedroom, size of, for the married, [94]
Bed-wetting, causes and cure, [337]
Bed, for married persons, [95]
clothing, [96]
the most healthful, [95]
in confinement, how to 'dress it', [222]
Binder, how to make, [221]
Births, relative proportion of male to female, [54]
Blondes, age of puberty of, [28]
Boarding school life, effect of, on girls, [47], [289]
Body, changes in, at puberty, [30]
symbolism of, [83]
Bowel complaints of children, [339]
Boys, more born than girls, [154]
Braces, abdominal, [376]
Breasts, attention required towards the end of pregnancy, [219]
changes in, during pregnancy, [170]
first application of child to, [232]
inflammation and abscess of, [382]
management after confinement, [246]
Bringing up by hand, [274]
Brunettes, age of puberty of, [28]
Care of infancy, [271]
Carrying an infant, manner of, [309]
Celibacy not chastity, [57]
results of, [58]
Change of life, regimen and perils of, [389]
Changes, the monthly, precautions during, [45]
precautions in the intervals of, [46]
when delayed, [48]
painful, [49]
worked by puberty, [30]
Child, the, [271]
attention to, at birth, [231]
can it cry before birth?, [198]
education, of before birth, [191]
Child-bearing, excessive, [115]
Childbed, diseases of, [361]
mortality of, [237]
Childbirth, imprudence after, [240]
preparations for, [219]
to preserve form after, [242]
Children, bathing of, [303]
bed for, [297]
clothing of, [300]
decreased number of, [73]
diet for, [288]
new-born, weight and length of, [238]
three and more at a birth, [164]
Children's diseases, home management of, [325]
Chlorosis, [36]
Choice of a husband, [69]
City life, effect of, on puberty, [29], [47]
Cleanliness, curative influence of, [378]
importance of, to wives, [131]
Climate, effect of, on puberty, [27]
Clothing at puberty, [43]
at confinement, [227]
during pregnancy, [209]
of new-born infants, [222]
of young children, [300]
Cold, effect of, on infants, [300]
Color of infant, influence of mind of mother on, [182]
Completion of puberty, [32]
Complexion, [136]
inheritance of, [125]
Conception, is it possible during pregnancy?, [192]
nature of, [125]
signs of, [128]
Confinement, bed for, [226]
day of, how to calculate, [206]
dress for, [227]
hints for attendants at, [229]
imprudence after, [240]
preparations for, [219]
Constipation of pregnancy, [358]
Constitution, effect of the, on puberty, [21]
on change of life, [398]
Consumption, [41], [71], [94], [148], [151]
Continence demanded from husbands, [121]
Cough of pregnancy, [359]
Count, how to make the, [206]
Country life, effect of, on puberty, [29]
Courtship, [65]
Cousins, shall they marry?, [69]
Crime of abortion, [122]
Croup, home treatment of, [325]
Culture of the skin, [306]
Dangers of puberty, [35]
Daughters, influenced by fathers, [144]
Deformities, are they hereditary?, [139]
Degeneracy, cause of, [349]
of the human race, a query, [348]
Diet for infants, [274], [288]
children, [292]
the pregnant, [208]
Diarrhœa during pregnancy, [357]
of infants, [339]
Directions for mothers who cannot nurse their own children, [267]
Dignity and propriety of the sexual instinct, [96]
Disease, communication of, [80]
Diseases, hereditary, [148]
of children, home management of, [325]
of wives and mothers, [352]
Distinction of the sexes, [18]
Divorce, unnatural and improper, [63]
Dress, attention to, during pregnancy, [209]
for confinement, [227]
Dressing of the new-born child, [231]
Drying up of the milk, [258], [279]
Duration of labor, [239]
Dyspepsia of children, [342]
Ear, the hygiene of, in childhood, [323]
Education, influence of, over hereditary qualities, [147]
of the child in the womb, [191]
special senses in children, [318]
Emotion, influence of, on unborn child, [185]
Emotions, stimulation of, effects of, on puberty, [29]
Engagement, the, [85]
Engagements, long, [86]
Epilepsy, a cause of, [255]
Eruptions of childhood, how to prevent, [106]
Eternity of love, [60]
Exercise at puberty, [42]
- during pregnancy, [210]
- of children, [309]
Excessive child-bearing, [115]
Eyes, the education of, in childhood, [319]
Falling of the womb, [368]
False labor pains, [225]
Fathers, influence of, on daughters, [144]
Feeding of infants, manner of, [291]
Fertility, hereditary, [138]
laws of, [109]
First application of child to breasts, [232]
cares to the child newly born, [231]
mother after childbirth, [230]
labors, [51]
seven years of life, [314]
Fits of children, home treatment of, [330]
Flat nipples, how to remedy, [245]
Food, during pregnancy, [207]
of infants and children, [288]
bill of fare for, [292]
Foreigners, should native women marry, [73]
Form, to preserve after confinement, [242]
Frigidity, [109]
Galen, anecdote of, [127]
Games and plays, advantages of, [314]
Gardner, Lord, the case of, [202]
Garters, danger of, during pregnancy, [355]
Gathered breasts, [382]
Goftr, story of, [166]
Government of children, hints on, [344]
Green sickness, [36]
Growth of children, [287]
Habits, dangers and advantages of, [316]
Hair, its significance, [84]
transmission of, [137]
Hardening of infants, dangerous theories on the, [303]
Hearing, the training of, in children, [323]
Head colds of children, home treatment of, [329]
Health, care of, during pregnancy, [207]
effect of pregnancy on, [216]
in marriage, [351]
Hereditary diseases, [148]
qualities influenced by education, [147]
Hermaphrodite, a true, [20]
Hindrances to nursing, [245]
Hints for attendants at confinement, [229]
Home government, hints on, [344]
management of some common children's diseases, [325]
treatment of female ailments, [377]
Husband, age of, [75]
and wife, during pregnancy, [216]
shall they occupy same room and bed, [93]
character of, [79]
how to choose, [69]
retain the affections of, [130]
Husbands, plurality of, [64]
Hygiene of puberty, [41]
the monthly periods, [45]
pregnancy, [207]
of infancy, [271]
of the special senses, [318]
Hygienic habits, importance of teaching children, [316]
treatment of inward weakness, [377]
Hysterics, [38]
Imagination of mother, influence of, on unborn child, [186]
Imprudence after childbirth, [240]
Indigestion of childhood, [342]
Indulgence and restraint of sexual desire, [99]
Infancy, care of, [271]
deaths in, [272]
Infant, first clothing of, [222]
washing of, [231]
how to carry, [309]
lift, [310]
teach to walk, [313]
Infants' food, [288]
Inheritance, [132]
how to avoid evil tendencies of, [151]
how to have beautiful children, [140]
influence of education over, [147]
each parent over, [144]
of beauty, [135]
of diseases, [148]
of longevity, [138]
of mutilations, [149]
of personal qualities, [139]
of physical ", [136]
of talent and genius, [141]
of temperament, [137]
late manifestations of, [151]
the effects of, [151]
Injections, [379]
Injurious exercises for infants, [311]
Intemperance, of several kinds, [117]
Intermarriage of relatives, [69]
Inward weakness, [368]
Irregularities, causes of, [46]
Irrigations, [381]
Knowledge, safety in, [17]
Labor, cause of, [225]
duration of, [239]
dress during, [227]
false and true, [225]
how to calculate time of, [170]
how to have, without pain, [236]
mortality of, [237]
signs of approaching, [223]
symptoms of actual, [224]
Late manifestations of the effects of inheritance, [151]
Late marriages, offspring of, [388]
Length of pregnancy, [200]
Liebig's soup for infants, [289]
Lifting an infant, manner of, [310]
Light, necessity of, for children, [308]
Limitation of offspring, [115]
Long engagements, [86]
Longevity, hereditary, [138]
Longings in pregnancy, [186]
Love, at first sight, [67]
differs from lust, [50]
is a necessity, [57]
is eternal, [60]
its power on humanity, [52]
what is it?, [54]
Looseness of bowels in children, [339]
during pregnancy, [357]
Lying-in room, the management of, [226]
Maiden, the, [23]
Manner of feeding infants, [291]
Mania, puerperal, [362]
Marital relations, times to suspend, [103]
when painful, [92], [104]
Marriage, age for, [50]
health in, [351]
time of month for, [87]
year for, [87]
Marriages, second, [62]
Maternity, duties and privileges of, [243]
perils of, [352]
Matrimony, necessity of, for happiness, [58]
Matron, the happy, [243]
Memory, visual, cultivation of, in childhood, [320]
Men, as wet-nurses, [260]
Menstruation explained, [24]
Mental impressions, effect of, on hysterics, [39]
on unborn children, [180]
troubles of girlhood, [47]
Milk, mother's, effect of anger on, [253]
effect of retention in the breasts, [249]
influence of diet on, [249]
pregnancy on, [250]
over-abundance of, [258]
scantiness of, [259]
quantity required by infant, [256]
when poisonous, [252]
value as food, [42]
Milk-leg, causes and treatment of, [367]
Mind, changes in, at puberty, [31]
during pregnancy, [175], [214]
influence of over conception, [126]
nursing child, [251]
unborn child, [182]
Miscarriage, [176]
causes and dangers of, [178]
frequency of, [176]
influence of age of mother on, [177]
prevention of, [179]
symptoms of, [180]
Mixture of races by marriage, [71]
Month, right time of the, to marry, [87]
Monthly changes, precautions in the intervals of, [46]
precautions during, [45]
when delayed, [48]
when painful, [49]
Moon, connection of monthly periods with, [32]
Morning sickness of pregnancy, [169], [353]
Mortality of childbed, [237]
comparative, of the two sexes in early life, [154]
Mortality of infants, causes of, [271]
relative to married life, [57]
Mother, the, [243]
diseases of, [361]
duties of, towards daughters at puberty, [44]
influence of, over sons, [144]
position in nursing, [225]
who is unable to nurse her child, [267]
Mothers' marks, [180]
Music, influence of, [99]
Mutilations, are they inheritable?, [149]
Native women, shall they marry foreigners?, [73]
Near-sightedness, how to prevent, [322]
Neck, form of, [83]
its significance, [84]
New-born babe, first cares for, [231]
weight and length of, [238]
Night dress of children, [301]
covering of children, [298]
the wedding, [91]
Nipples, how to harden, [220]
Nose-bleed in childhood, [333]
Nubility, the age of, [50]
Nursing, [244]
care of health during, [263]
diseases of, [382]
hindrances to, [245]
position during, [225]
prolonged, [262]
rules for, [248]
when improper, [245]
Nursing mother, qualities of good, [257]
Offspring, the limitation of, [115]
influenced by the mind, [126]
Over-nursing, signs of, [265]
Overlaying of children, deaths from, [273]
Over-production, evils of, [115]
remedies for, [121]
Ovulation, the meaning of, [24]
Painful monthly changes, causes and treatment, [49]
Pains of labor, true and false, [225]
Painless labors, how to have, [236]
Parr, Thomas, the long life of, [139]
Pendulous abdomen after confinement, how to escape, [242]
Perils of maternity, [352]
Persons of both sexes, and of neither sex, [20]
Perspiration, fetid, [131]
Phases, the three, of woman's life, [22]
Piles, during pregnancy, [356]
Plays, the, of children, advantages of, [314]
Plural births, [163]
Plurality of wives or husbands, [64]
Position of child while eating, [294]
of child while sleeping, [299]
Position of mother while nursing, [255]
Precautions necessary at the time of the monthly changes, [45]
Precocity, remarkable instances of, [25]
Pregnancy, [167]
bathing during, [212]
care of health during, [207]
causes of protracted, [205]
can a woman again become pregnant during, [192]
clothing during, [209]
diseases of, [352]
double, [192]
effect of, on the health, [216]
exercise during, [210]
food during, [208]
influence of, on the milk of nursing mother, [250]
length of, [200]
relation of husband and wife during, [216]
signs and symptoms of, [168]
sleep during, [213]
ventilation of sleeping-room during, [212]
Premature marriages, [50]
Preparations for confinement, [219]
Prolific wives, [115]
Puerperal mania, [362]
Qualities transmitted by parents, [132]
Quantity of milk required by infant, [256]
Quickening, as a sign of pregnancy, [170]
flatulence mistaken for, [172]
how caused, [171]
time of, [171]
Race, the human, is it degenerating?, [348]
Races, mixture of, [71]
Relation of husband and wife during pregnancy, [216]
nursing, [264]
Relative age of man and wife, [76]
proportion of men and women living, [153]
Religion, mistaken notions of, [57]
Rest, after delivery, [241]
during pregnancy, [211]
Re-vaccination, [286]
Right time of the month to marry, [87]
time of the year to marry, [87]
Schooling, the, of the first seven years of life, [316]
Scrofulous diseases, a cause of, [309]
Second marriages, [62]
Secret bad habits, [39]
Self-deceptions regarding pregnancy, [172]
Senses, training of the special, in childhood, [318]
Sex of child, how to predict before birth, [198]
Sexes, distinction of, [18]
laws which determine the relative numbers of the, [155]
persons of both and of neither, [20]
production of, at will, [157]
Sexual desire, indulgence and restraint of, [99]
moderation in, [100]
instinct, dignity and propriety of, [96]
false notions about, [97]
desire, influence of on offspring, [98]
Sexuality, what it implies, [18]
Sickness, morning, during pregnancy, [353]
during labor, [225]
Signs of approaching labor, [223]
puberty, [30]
conception, [128]
over-nursing, [265]
pregnancy, [168]
Sight, the training of, in childhood, [319]
Single life, the, [386]
in its relation to sanity and mortality, [57]
Skin, changes in, during pregnancy, [174]
culture, of, in infancy, [306]
Sleep, amount required in early life, [295]
at puberty, [42]
during pregnancy, [213]
position in, [299]
Sleeplessness during pregnancy, [360]
Small pox, death rate from, [283]
the only preventive against, [284]
Son or daughter?, [198]
Sore nipples, [246]
Soup, Liebig's, [289]
Sphere of woman, [21]
Spinal disease, [36]
Spring-time, [101]
Spurious labor pains, [225]
Stages of labor, [123]
Starvation of girls, [41]
Sterility, [106]
how to remedy, [113]
Still-births, [240]
Stilling Jung, anecdote of, [67]
Stimulation of the emotions, dangers of, at puberty, [29]
St. Pierre, anecdote of, [78]
Sully Raymond, anecdote of, [401]
Swimming, benefit of, [306]
Symbolism of the human body, [83]
Syringes, and how to use them, [379]
Talent, hereditary, [141]
Teething, period of, [279]
Temperament, transmission of, [137]
Temperaments, explained, [77]
influence of, [101]
in marriage, [77]
Things wanted during confinement, [221]
Tight-lacing, [43], [374]
Time of expected labor, how to calculate it, [206]
of the year to marry, [87]
of the month to marry, [87]
Times when marital relations should be suspended, [103]
Toilet, innocent arts of, [132]
Tour, the wedding, [87]
Toys, a mean of infantile education, [315]
Twins, how to predict, [199]
why born, [161]
Twin-bearing, [160]
influence of, on size of families, [163]
Thury, Prof., discovery of, [157]
Unborn child, education of, [191]
Vaccination, age for, [285]
importance of, [282]
Varicose veins of pregnancy, [355]
Ventilation of sleeping rooms during pregnancy, [212]
Virgins, wet-nursing by, [260]
Voice, change in, at puberty, [30]
Wakefulness of pregnancy, [360]
Walk, how to teach a child to, [313]
Washing of the new-born infant, [231]
Weakness, inward, [368]
Weaning, [277]
Wedding tour, the, [87]
night, the, [91]
Weight and length of new-born children, [238]
Wet-nurse, how to select, [269]
Wet-nursing by virgins and men, [260]
White-flowing, [365]
Wives famous in history, [59]
plurality of, [64]
Woman, the three phases in the life of, [22]
physical differences from man, [19]
sphere of, [21]
to be sought, [65]
Womb, falling of, [368]
Worms of children, home treatment of, [335]
Women, diseases peculiar to, [352]
treatment of, [377]
why redundant, [153]
Young wives, [50]
mothers, [51]
Year, right time of, to marry, [87]
Zurich, curious custom in, [93]