Mother, Nurse and Infant / A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies.

by S. P. Sackett

Exfoliate. The act of throwing off of dead bone in scales.

Expectant. Waiting for the efforts of nature.

Extend. To stretch; to pull out.

Exiravisation. The effusion of the contents of vessels into the surrounding tissues.

Extra uterine. Outside the uterine walls.

Fæces. Excrement; evacuations from the bowels.

Fallopian Tubes. Two ducts or tubes floating in the abdomen.

Fascia. Fibrous membrane covering muscles.

Febrifuge. Sedative; assuaging fever.

Femur. The thigh bone.