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Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

Chapter 53: ADVICE TO A MOTHER ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HER CHILDREN, AND ON THE TREATMENT ON THE MOMENT OF SOME OF THEIR MORE PRESSING ILLNESSES AND ACCIDENTS.
By Pye Henry Chavasse
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A practical manual offers plainspoken medical and domestic guidance for married women, combining two parts: counsel for wives on preserving personal health and managing pregnancy, labor, and breastfeeding, and guidance for mothers on the care and management of children. It emphasizes preventative measures and clear remedies, urging reforms in diet, sleep, exercise, and moderation of stimulants, and aims to dispel common misconceptions surrounding confinement and infant care. The tone is direct and prescriptive, prioritizing sensible household habits, hygiene, and timely treatment to reduce maternal weakness, reproductive difficulty, and infant ill health.

ADVICE TO A MOTHER
ON THE
MANAGEMENT OF HER CHILDREN,
AND ON THE
TREATMENT ON THE MOMENT
OF
SOME OF THEIR MORE PRESSING ILLNESSES AND ACCIDENTS.

BY
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND; FELLOW OF THE OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF QUEEN’S COLLEGE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, BIRMINGHAM; AUTHOR OF “ADVICE TO A WIFE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HER OWN HEALTH.”
“Lo, children and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and cometh of the Lord.”
SEVENTEENTH EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1881.
TO
Sir CHARLES LOCOCK, Bart., F.R.S.,
FIRST PHYSICIAN-ACCOUCHEUR TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Dear Sir Charles:

Your kind and flattering approval of this little Book, and your valuable suggestions for its improvement, demand my warmest gratitude and acknowledgments, and have stimulated me to renewed exertions to make it still more complete and useful, and thus more worthy of your approbation.

You have greatly added to my obligation, by allowing me to indicate those passages of the work that you considered required correction, addition, and improvement. On reference to these pages, it will be at once perceived how greatly I am indebted to you, and how much I have profited by your valuable advice.

I have the honor to remain,
Dear Sir Charles,
Your faithful and obliged servant,
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE.
Priory House, Old Square,
Birmingham.