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

Sudamina. Small vesicles caused by profuse sweating.

Sudoriferous. Sweating.

Sudorifics. Medicines which produce a flow of perspiration.

Superior. The upper of two parts.

Suppositary. Medicine in a solid form, intended for introduction into the rectum, or vagina.

Suppression. Stoppage of a discharge.

Suppuration. The process of forming pus.

Sutures. 1st. The seams that unite the bones of the skull. 2d. Stitches to hold the edges of a wound together.

Symphasis. A peculiar kind of articulation.

Symptoms. Signs or phenomena which accompany disease.