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

Lamina. Layers.

Laparotomy. Opening the bowels by an incision.

Larynx. The top of the windpipe; the cavity which contains the vocal ligaments.

Latent. Concealed; not apparent.

Lateral. Towards the side.

Laxatives. Medicines which render the bowels more relaxed than usual.

Leech. A cotyloid worm used for the local abstraction of blood.

Lesion. A morbid change in the texture of an organ.

Leucorrhœa. A whitish discharge from the vagina; the whites.

Ligament. A fibrous band.