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

Refrigerant. Cooling medicines which lessen the heat of the body.

Regimen. The systematic use of the necessaries of life.

Remission. Temporary abatement of symptoms.

Renal. Pertaining to the kidneys.

Resection. Taking out a portion of bone.

Resolution. Gradual subsidence of a disease.

Retroflexion. Being bent over backwards.

Retroversion. Turning or falling backwards.

Revulsives. Appliances which remove a disease by causing a determination to some other part.

Rhythm. Measured beat or movement.