The Maternal Physician: A Treatise on the Nurture and Management of Infants, from the Birth Until Two Years Old. Being the Result of Sixteen Years' Experience in the NurseryIsaac Riley, 1811 - 291 páginas The first book comprehensively devoted to childbearing and childcare, and by extension the first medical book by an American woman. |
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Página 47
... then prove fatal , or , at least , attend patients in their last illness . The fact is , it is a disease of debility , and therefore attacks very old and very young " It is subjects , especially if otherwise weakened . From the above 47.
... then prove fatal , or , at least , attend patients in their last illness . The fact is , it is a disease of debility , and therefore attacks very old and very young " It is subjects , especially if otherwise weakened . From the above 47.
Página 59
... to throw up the phlegm . It is also known to be very good for the colic , either for very old or very young patients . I frequently give a small quantity grated into water , and sweet- ened a little , to my infants , when they 59.
... to throw up the phlegm . It is also known to be very good for the colic , either for very old or very young patients . I frequently give a small quantity grated into water , and sweet- ened a little , to my infants , when they 59.
Página 63
... patient , and degree of the disease , children become pale and languid ; at this time also the glands of the throat be- come swelled , and of a dark red colour , with ash - coloured specks upon them , and in some there are extensive ...
... patient , and degree of the disease , children become pale and languid ; at this time also the glands of the throat be- come swelled , and of a dark red colour , with ash - coloured specks upon them , and in some there are extensive ...
Página 64
... patient in the manner already described . " From this account of the disorder , a re- gard to the state of the bowels is the mani- fest indication , which must be more attended to than in almost any other disease ; since the keeping ...
... patient in the manner already described . " From this account of the disorder , a re- gard to the state of the bowels is the mani- fest indication , which must be more attended to than in almost any other disease ; since the keeping ...
Página 84
... patient of my own , in whose house a visitor sud- denly dropped down dead . The mother of the child , which was six months old , was exceedingly alarmed ; but her attention being for a moment called off by its crying , she incautiously ...
... patient of my own , in whose house a visitor sud- denly dropped down dead . The mother of the child , which was six months old , was exceedingly alarmed ; but her attention being for a moment called off by its crying , she incautiously ...
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The Maternal Physician: A Treatise on the Nurture and Management of Infants ... American matron Vista de fragmentos - 1972 |
The Maternal Physician: A Treatise on the Nature and Management of Infants ... American Matron Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 281 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 140 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, — Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Página 17 - And rouse the heart to every fever's rage. While yet you breathe, away ; the rural wilds Invite; the mountains call you, and the vales; The woods, the streams, and each ambrosial breeze That fans the ever undulating sky : A kindly sky ! whose fostering power regales Man, beast, and all the vegetable reign.
Página 279 - Whose finer sense each soft vibration owns With sweet responsive sympathy of tones; (So the fair flower expands its lucid form To meet the sun, and shuts it to the storm) ; For thee my borders nurse the fragrant wreath, My .fountains murmur, and my zephyrs breathe; Slow slides the painted snail, the gilded fly Smooths his fine down, to charm thy curious eye...
Página 19 - Think not that I would bid your softness share "Undue fatigue, and every grosser care ; Another's toils may here supply your own ; But be the task of nurture yours alone ; Nor from a stranger let your offspring prove The fond endearments of a parent's love. So shall your child, in manhood's riper day, With warm affection all your cares repay.
Página 141 - Clasps her fair nurseling in delighted arms ; Throws the thin kerchief from her neck of snow, And half unveils the pearly orbs below ; With sparkling eye the blameless plunderer owns Her soft embraces, and endearing tones, Seeks the salubrious fount with opening lips, Spreads his inquiring hands, and smiles, and sips.
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Página 171 - SICKNESS SICKNESS, the minister of Death, doth lay So strong a siege against our brittle clay, As, whilst it doth our weak forts singly win, It hopes at length to take all mankind in. First, it begins upon the womb to wait, 5 And doth the unborn child there uncreate ; Then rocks the cradle where the infant lies, Where, ere it fully be alive, it dies.
Página 152 - And many a tear the tassell'd cushion stains ! No voice so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow as his mother's breast ! — . Thus charm'd to sweet repose, when twilight hours Shed their soft influence on celestial bowers, The cherub Innocence, with smile divine, Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on beauty's shrine.
Página 251 - ... It is reckoned a medicine of great efficacy in some cachectic and chlorotic cases; in weakness of the stomach occasioned by a load of viscid phlegm, and in such disorders in general as proceed from a cold sluggish indisposition of the solids and lentor of the fluids. I have experienced great benefit from it in rheumatic pains, particularly those of the fixed kind, and which were seated deep. In these cases I have given from ten grains to a scruple of the fresh root twice or thrice...