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.

A teaspoonful in water three times a day.

130. FOR MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.

S. A teaspoonful three times a day.

131. FOR DROPSY.

S. A teaspoonful every three or four hours.

132. FOR URETHRAITIS.

S. Dessert spoonful in water three times a day.

EMETICS.

133. POWDER OF IPECAC.

Signa. One to be taken in a little sweetened water or warm water. If one powder does not produce the desired effect within thirty or forty minutes, the second to be taken in like manner. It may be followed by a draught of tepid water after vomiting commences.

134. POWDER OF SULPHATE OF ZINC.

Signa. To be taken in syrup, and followed by a draught of warm water.

℞ Very young children in some instances suffer from indigestion. If delicate give five grains ipecacuanha, and after that sickens the child give a dose of castor oil to remove the offending matter from the stomach.

136. EMETIC USED IN CAPILLARY BRONCHITIS OF CHILDREN.

For one dose; to be repeated every ten minutes until emesis is produced.

EXPECTORANTS.

137. SEDATIVE COUGH MIXTURE.

One-sixth part every six hours. In chronic bronchitis when an expectorant and sedative is desired.

138. INFUSION OF FLAXSEED, &C.

Macerate for two or three hours near the fire in a covered vessel, strain, and add lemon juice sufficient to make it agreeable. This may be given as a common drink in catarrh.

139. COUGH SYRUP.

S. Dose for an adult, a teaspoonful three times a day and after each fit of coughing.

Stir them together with a wooden rod for ten minutes, then let the tar subside. Strain the water and keep in well corked bottles. A pint may be taken daily.

141. FOR WHOOPING COUGH.

Sig. A teaspoonful three times a day for a child.

142. FOR PNEUMONIA.

Sig. Dose, a half teaspoonful every three hours or oftener.

143. PNEUMONIA.

Sig. A teaspoonful every four hours for an adult.

144. FOR COUGH.

Sig. Dose, ½ a teaspoonful every six hours, and after each spell of coughing.

ENEMATA AND INJECTIONS.

145. FOR ASCARIDES.

Inject into the bowels.

Warm to 98° and inject into the bowels.

147. INJECTION FOR THE VAGINA. (THIS MAY BE USED DILUTED WITH WATER.)

Inject with a Davidson or a fountain syringe.

148. ENEMA FOR PINWORMS.

Repeat this each day for four or five days. This will stain clothing.

149. ENEMA TO MOVE THE BOWELS.

To be administered at once.

150. FOR ASCARIDES CAUSING VAGINAL DISCHARGE.

Inject one-half into the rectum at night and the other half the next morning.

151. EMMENAGOGUE ENEMA.

To be injected twice a day when the menstrual flow is due, for one or two days.

152. FOR IRRITABLE UTERUS.

Use as a rectal injection. Where there is pain in the part, one drachm of the tincture of opium hyoscyamus or conium may be used in the same way.

The vaginal injections most used when disinfection is the special object, and the usual proportions are the following:

℞ Corrosive sublimate, 1 to 1000 or 2000; carbolic acid, 5 or 10 to 1000; thymal, 1 to 1000; sulphite of soda, 5 to 1000; permangenate of potash, 5 to 1000; liquor sodii chlorinatæ (Labaraques solution), 1 to 2; chlorine water, 1 to 2; salacylic acid, 1 to 1000 hot water.

For medicinal astringent vaginal injections, give alum, sulphate of zinc, or lead, copper, and iron, salts of the strength of one or two per cent.

The permangenate of potash, silver nitrate, and iron solutions all make almost indelible stains on the linen.

If the injections are corrosive, a large straight glass syringe should be used.

154. INJECTION FOR LEUCORRHŒA.

Of this two table spoonfuls in a pint of water.

155. VAGINAL INJECTION.

Half a teaspoonful to be mixed with a pint of tepid or cold water to form an injection.

156. INJECTION FOR DYSENTERY.

For an injection.

157. INJECTION FOR FETID LEUCORRHŒA.

S. Three table spoonfuls to be added to the pint of warm water as a vaginal injection.

EMMENAGOGUES—UTERINE THERAPEUTICS.

158. STIMULANT EMMENAGOGUE.

S. Teaspoonful three times a day for amenorrhœa and hysteria.

159. FOR CHLOROSIS.

Sig. One-eighth part three times a day.

160. RECTAL SUPPOSITARY.

S. Apply one to relieve pain in the region of the uterus or rectum.

161. FOR PAINFUL MENSTRUATION.

S. Dose, a table spoonful four times a day. To be given for a week or ten days before the menstrual period.

162. FOMENTATION FOR PAIN IN THE BLADDER AND UTERUS.

Sig. Make fomentations. To be applied topically and covered with oiled silk to retain heat and moisture.

163. VAGINAL SUPPOSITARY.

Divide into eight pessaries. Used in chronic leucorrhœa, vaginitis, &c.

NARCOTICS AND SEDATIVES.

164. FOR HEADACHE.

Sig. Take one powder dissolved in a wineglass of water, to be repeated in an hour if necessary.

165. FOR SUBACUTE RHEUMATISM.

Sig. Half a teaspoonful in water.

166. EPILEPTICAL SEIZURES AT THE MENSTRUAL PERIOD.

S. One dose three times a day.

167. OVARIAN NEURALGIA.

S. One teaspoonful three times a day.

Sig. Table spoonful three times a day.

169. FOR HEADACHE.

Sig. Dessert spoonful every ten or twenty minutes.

170. TOOTHACHE DROPS.

Sig. Place two or three drops in cavity of tooth.

171. FOR FUNCTIONAL PALPITATION.

S. One teaspoonful three times a day.

172. STIMULANT EMMENAGOGUES.

S. One teaspoonful in a wineglassful of water three times a day.

173. FOR NEURALGIA, &C.

S. One table spoonful every four hours.

S. Two table spoonfuls three times daily.

175. ACID MIXTURE.

S. One table spoonful before each meal in depressing disorders; if there is hemorrhage, give larger doses.

176. FOR LEUCORRHŒA.

℞ Water, one pint; sulphate of magnesia (epsom salts), as much as the water will dissolve; sulphate of iron, one drachm. Mix and add aromatic sulphuric acid, one fluid drachm. Dose, a table spoonful or a sufficient quantity to relax the bowels.

177. FOR ERYSIPELAS.

S. A teaspoonful every three hours after the action of a cathartic.

178. AROMATIC INFUSION IN DYSENTERY.

Boil to twelve ounces and cool. S. Dose for an adult, an ounce, three times daily; for a child, one to three teaspoonfuls. Sweeten if preferred.

179. INCONTINENCE OF URINE.

Sig. One teaspoonful in water three times a day.

This is said to be the same as the nostrum which is sold for one dollar (costing only a few cents).

181. TONIC IN NEURALGIA.

One to be taken every four hours, and when the pain is severe give a little opium or Dover powder.

182. FOR CHRONIC CHILLS.

Sig. One table spoonful every four hours.

183. FOR ST. VITUS DANCE. (CHOREA.)

S. A half teaspoonful three times a day, gradually increasing the dose.

184. TONIC AFTER SEVERE HEMORRHAGE.

S. Take a teaspoonful in plenty of water three times a day.

185. FOR SCIRRHOUS TUMORS.

Apply to tumor and wear it constantly. Use also for indolent ulcerations where stimulation and purification is needed.

186. TO REMOVE CLOASMA, (BROWNISH DISCOLORATIONS OF SKIN.)

If it roughens the skin too much omit its use and apply sweet cream. Sig. Apply locally to the spots. Poison.

187. SALVE FOR BURNS, &C.

Heat the wax in a clean tin vessel, add the oil and stir till they are thoroughly incorporated; then set off the fire and continue to stir until cold, adding first the tannin and then the bismuth.

188. TO CURE SORE EYES.

189. LINIMENT USED IN CEREBRO SPINAL MENINGETIS.

S. Apply the whole length of the spine.

S. Rub well the whole length of the spine two or three times a day, until there is tenderness of the skin.

191. AMMONIACAL GAS FOR DYSMENORRHŒA.

Put a teaspoonful of this in a chamber and have the patient sit for one or two minutes over it. In cases of severe tenesmus, or strangury, or dysmenorrhœa, relief may be obtained in about two minutes if the first pungent effects of the gas can be borne.

192. ANODYNE LOTION.

For acute superficial pain, pruritis, hyperesthesia of the skin, gout, &c.

193. COOLING LOTION FOR INFLAMED EYES.

S. Drop in the eyes ad. lib. A good vehicle for the addition of one or two grains atropia sulphate when indicated.

194. ANAL TROUBLES.

Sig. Use quite within the anal folds once or twice a day.

195. LOTION FOR PRURITIS ANI.

S. For external use.