- Ablution after labor, 245.
- among the poor, 41.
- manner of young wife performing, 42.
- morning, 41.
- in pregnancy, 124.
- thorough, 41.
- Abortion, 174.
- Accoucheur, the duties of, 206.
- Advice to a monthly nurse, 196.
- After birth should never be brought away by nurse, 233.
- After pains, 212.
- Age at which menstruation commences, 105.
- Age, best, to marry, 104.
- Ages of mother and wet-nurse, 265.
- Ailments of pregnancy, 140.
- Air, cold, the value of, 37.
- Air and exercise in pregnancy, 125.
- during suckling, 268.
- and occupation, 126.
- Ale and porter, sour, 253.
- more nourishing than wine, 266.
- Alcohol a deadly poison, 57.
- in brandy and in wine, 57.
- Aloe paste in weaning, 295.
- Amusements of a young wife, 20.
- Aperient pills after confinement, 241.
- Aperients in pregnancy, 140.
- the abuse of, 244.
- before labor, 155.
- immediately after, improper, 241.
- during suckling, 287.
- on frequent, 99.
- Appetite, bad, 51.
- Applications for hair, 47.
- Armstrong on ablution, 49.
- Articles wanted at labor, 216.
- Artificial respiration, 232.
- Assisting nature, on, 209.
- Bad breast, 282.
- Bandage after confinement, 236.
- Barley-water and new milk, 251.
- Barren wives, 14.
- diet of, 38.
- number of, 14.
- Barrenness and fashion, 68.
- Bathing feet, 45.
- shoulders and back, 42.
- whole body, 42.
- Bay salt, 45.
- Bearing down pains, 202.
- Beauty-sleep, 72.
- Bed, “the guarding of,” 218.
- Bed-pan, the best kind of, 244.
- Bedroom for pregnant female, 137.
- Bedstead, a four-post, in labor, 216.
- Beef-tea, how to make (note), 249.
- “Being out in reckoning,” 187.
- Beverage after labor, 251.
- the best for young wife, 55.
- for mother whose child is ill, 268.
- Bidet should be regularly used, 124.
- Bladder, irritability of, 164, 199.
- importance of attending to, 233.
- in pregnancy, 164.
- sluggishness of, 164.
- state of, after confinement, 239.
- “Blue-stocking,” as a wife, 93.
- Bosom after labor, 259.
- Bowels to be opened before labor, 155.
- if regular, no aperient required, 145.
- Bowel complaints of pregnancy, 145.
- Bowels, state of, after labor, 241.
- Boy or girl?, 188.
- Brandy to be in the lying-in room, 222.
- on the use of, during labor, 222, 235.
- Bran-bread as an aperient, 289.
- Breakfast for young wife, 50.
- Breast-drawer, 258.
- Breast, full and uneasy, 282.
- in second and in succeeding confinements, 259.
- painful during pregnancy, 162.
- gathered, 282.
- causes of, 283.
- importance of early treatment, 286.
- shivering fit in, 286.
- symptoms of, 286.
- two forms of, 285.
- Breast-pump, ill effects of, 296.
- Bringing up of girls, 96.
- Bugs and fleas, 97.
- Business of a wife, 90.
- Calomel dangerous in pregnancy, 140.
- Carbonic acid gas in crowded rooms, 33, 86.
- Carpet for bath-room, 47.
- Carriage exercise, on the abuse of, 29.
- Castor oil, the dose and manner of administering, 141.
- Caudle should be banished lying-in room, 236.
- “Caul,” a child’s (note), 230.
- Cause, one, of small families, 60.
- “Ceasing to be unwell,” 117.
- Champagne-cup, 63.
- Change of air for delicate wife, 96.
- “Change of life,” 115.
- “Change of life,” great importance of not neglecting, 115.
- of room after labor, 253.
- Cheerful wife, 87.
- Cheerfulness during labor, 220.
- Child born before arrival of medical man, 228.
- should be gradually weaned, 294.
- Childless house, 14.
- Chimney, on stopping, 35.
- Chloroform in hard and lingering labor, 225.
- Chlorosis and hysteria, 113.
- Circulation, languid, 30, 55.
- Cleanliness of body, 41.
- “Cleansings,” 245.
- Clever wife a fortune, 90.
- Clothing in pregnancy, 123.
- after labor, 234.
- during suckling, 262.
- Clysters, 242, 288.
- Coffee as an aperient, 142, 290.
- Complexion, a fine, 25, 27.
- Contentment, 87.
- Cook, an idiot of a, 90.
- Cookery, good and careful, 89.
- Costiveness during pregnancy, 140.
- a cause of hard labor, 143.
- “Count,” 185.
- the German method of making, 187.
- a good plan to make the, 186.
- Country, on living in the, 36, 137.
- Cramp of the bowels, 168.
- Cramps of the legs and thighs in pregnancy, 168, 203.
- Creasote in toothache, 156.
- “Croakers,” during labor, 190, 219.
- Croquet, best of games, 85.
- Crying out, when in pain, 214.
- Curates’ wives, 38.
- Dancing, danger of young wife, 86.
- Dangers of wine-drinking, 56.
- Daylight, importance of, 79.
- Depression of spirits during suckling, 267.
- Derbyshire oatmeal gruel, 143.
- Dews of morning and evening, 26, 70.
- Diarrhœa in pregnancy, 145.
- Dietary of a young wife, 49.
- pregnant female, 134.
- after labor, 249.
- Diet during suckling, 263.
- of lying-in women, 249
- of young wife, 49.
- Digestion, a good, 271.
- Dirt in wrong place, 132.
- Difficulty of lying down in pregnancy, 138.
- Dinners and tempers, 92.
- Disinfectant, 129.
- Dissipation and barrenness, 14.
- Domette bandages, 153.
- Dozing, ill effects of, 67.
- Drainage, 132.
- Dress for labor, 217.
- “Drying up the milk,” 296.
- Duration of menstruation, 105.
- Duties of a nursing mother, 255.
- Early Maturity, 106.
- riser needs refreshment, 68.
- rising and early to bed, 71.
- a cosmetic, 70.
- a duty, 71.
- good effects of, 70.
- Early rising rejuvenizes, 70.
- Economy, domestic, 87.
- Employment “nature’s doctor,” 274.
- Enceinte, the origin of the word (note), 113.
- Enema apparatus, 100, 197.
- for costiveness, 100.
- for lying-in patient, 242.
- Enemata of tepid water, 152.
- Ewers and basins, Liliputian, 41.
- Exercise for a young wife, 23.
- a necessity, 24.
- before breakfast, 47.
- best aperient, 144.
- for the delicate, 25.
- immense importance of, 23.
- in close carriages, 29.
- in pregnancy, 125.
- during suckling, 268
- fresh air and occupation during pregnancy, 126.
- in open air after labor, 254.
- promotes sleep, 78.
- False labor pains, 183.
- Fainting in pregnancy, 165.
- Faintness during suckling, 287.
- “Falling of the womb,” 247.
- Falling off of hair, 47.
- Fashion and barrenness, 38.
- Fashionable system of spending married life, 18.
- Fat and pregnancy, how to distinguish between, 121.
- Feet, cold, exercise the remedy for, 30.
- Females who have sick pregnancies, 161.
- “Female slipper,” 239.
- Fire-guard on lying-in room grate, 237.
- Fire, ill effects of sitting near, 27.
- Flannel, 218.
- Flatulence and “quickening,” 121.
- Fleas and bugs, 97.
- Fœtal circulation (note), 122.
- Folly of shutting out light, 79.
- Food, variety of, necessary, 265.
- French bed-pan, 244.
- cookery, 91.
- plums, stewed, 289.
- Friend, the choice of, during labor, 219.
- Fruit useful in pregnancy, 136.
- Fruitful women, 60.
- Fruit tree, a simile, 15.
- Fruitless suckling, 283.
- Fumigations, 129.
- Garters, ill effects of, in pregnancy, 123.
- Gathered breasts, 282.
- causes of, 283.
- importance of early treatment, 286.
- German breakfast, 289.
- Gestation, period of, 185.
- Ginger plaster, 157.
- Girl or boy?, 188.
- Greens, cabbages, and pickles, 290.
- “Guarding of the bed,” 218.
- Hair, on washing, 46.
- Health, a beautifier, 23.
- importance of, 101.
- of wives, 13.
- worth trying for, 17.
- Heart, palpitation of, during pregnancy, 167.
- Heartburn in pregnancy, 147.
- Hints to attendants, 228.
- to mother when infant is ill, 268.
- Home known only in England, 86.
- Honey, on the wholesomeness of, 289.
- Hot-water bag, 147, 168.
- House, a healthy, 36.
- Household duties, 86.
- Hysteria, 113.
- Husband in lying-in room, 210.
- Idle ladies, 78.
- Idleness brings misery, 127.
- India-rubber teat and shield for drawn-in nipple, 276.
- Indolence, the ill effects of, in pregnancy, 126.
- Infant born apparently dead, 230.
- the period of suckling an, 293.
- the cry of an, 230.
- Introductory Chapter, 13.
- Irish women, poor, 38.
- Irritation and itching, 172.
- Jam as an aperient, 89.
- Jeremy Taylor’s description of a wife, 13.
- Labor, 199.
- the easy and the hard, 94.
- rapid, directions concerning, 228.
- symptoms of, 199–215.
- treatment of, 216–254.
- Lavements in pregnancy, 144.
- Leather cheaper than physic, 24.
- Legs, the swollen, of pregnancy, 152.
- Length of time of first labor, 210.
- Life is to be well, 18.
- Light, effects of, 79.
- Little ablution—much clothing, 84.
- Lively women and easy labors, 127.
- Luxurious idle wife, 77.
- Luxury, an age of, 28.
- Lying-in room, 237.
- Maid-servants and the “ologies,” 92.
- Marmalade as an aperient, 290.
- Marshmallow and chamomile fomentation (note), 245.
- Martin Luther on work, 89.
- Mastication, thorough, 54.
- Materials of food should be mixed and varied, 265.
- Means to strengthen, 16.
- Meddlesome breast-tending, 260.
- midwifery reprobated, 205.
- Medical men, 209.
- Medicines in pregnancy, 140–173.
- Menstrual fluid, 111.
- Menstruation, 103.
- accompanied with “the whites,” 112.
- before marriage, 111.
- during 30 years, 102.
- painful, 111.
- dangers of, 111.
- profuse, 112.
- sparing, 112.
- too pale or too dark, 111.
- when not properly performed, 111.
- Milk at its “height,” 259.
- the best way of “drying up” the, 296.
- flowing away constantly, 280.
- very fattening, 54.
- Miscarriage, 174.
- care required after, 178.
- causes of, 175.
- consequences of a neglected, 178.
- flooding in, 177.
- prevention of, 179.
- symptoms of a threatened, 176.
- treatment of, 179.
- usual time of taking place, 177.
- Misconception and prejudice, 238.
- Mission, the glorious, 101.
- Monthly nurse, 189–198.
- Morning sickness, 117, 158.
- Mothers predisposed to consumption, 300.
- who cannot suckle, 299.
- unnatural, 255.
- Mountain-air, 97.
- Mufflers and sore throats, 84.
- Mutton-chops, folly of living entirely on, 52.
- Nature in early morning, 68.
- Navel, pouting of, as a sign of pregnancy, 122.
- Navel-string, the manner of tying, 233.
- not to be tied until the child breathes, 232.
- Nipple, cracked and fissured, 279.
- during suckling, 257.
- means to harden, 162.
- great importance of hardening, 162.
- retraction of, 275.
- shields, 276.
- sore, 277.
- an obstinate, 299.
- washing of, and breast, 257.
- wet, 280.
- shields, Wansbrough’s, 279.
- Nose, a sentinel, 129.
- Nurse, monthly, 189–198.
- importance of choosing a good, 189.
- on wearing crinoline, 197.
- on wearing slippers instead of shoes, 198.
- Nursery-basin, 43.
- Nursing, prolonged, danger of, 293.
- Oatmeal, Derbyshire, 143.
- gruel as a fomentation, 245.
- Occupation, 87, 272.
- fresh air, and exercise, 272.
- Offspring of very young and very old, 104.
- Olive oil as an aperient, 142.
- Opening medicine, 99.
- Pains, “bearing down,” 203.
- before and during menstruation, 111.
- “grinding,” 200.
- at night in pregnancy, 139.
- Painless parturition, 212.
- Palpitation of the heart in pregnancy, 167.
- Passion, the ill effects of, during suckling, 270.
- Pendulous belly of pregnancy, 154.
- Pepper plaster, 157.
- Period of gestation, 185.
- Pessaries, 248.
- Physic, a substitute for exercise, 31.
- Piles in pregnancy, 148.
- Pleasure and health, 85.
- Plethoric pregnant females, 136.
- Poisoned by one’s own breath, 35.
- Porter and ale for a nursing mother, 266.
- Position after delivery, 237.
- of a mother during suckling, 270.
- of patient after labor, 237.
- “Pottering” nurse, 190.
- Poultice, a bread and milk and sweet oil, 282.
- Precursory symptoms of labor, 199.
- Pregnancy, 117.
- duration of, 185.
- a natural process, 127.
- period of, 185.
- signs of, 117.
- Preliminary observations, 13.
- Preparation for health, 47.
- Profession of a wife, 90.
- Prolific mothers (note), 105.
- Proper time for a patient to sit up after labor, 246.
- to send for medical man, 200, 203.
- to send for the nurse, 200.
- Protrusion of the bowels, 149.
- Prunes, stewed, 289.
- Puberty, period of (note), 105.
- Pump-water, contamination, 132.
- on boiling, 133.
- on purity of, 132.
- “Quickening,” 120.
- flatulence mistaken for, 121.
- Quiet after confinement, 246.
- Rain and wind, exercise in, 24.
- Rats in drains and sewers, 130.
- “Reckoning,” to make the, 186.
- Refreshment after labor, 235.
- Remedies to prevent costiveness, 291.
- Respiration, artificial, 232.
- Rest after delivery, 234.
- in pregnancy, 133.
- and quietude after labor, 246.
- Restlessness at night, 138.
- Rich ladies, 38.
- Rising of the sun on seeing the, 71.
- Rock-salt, 45.
- Rules for a female prone to miscarry, 180.
- for barren wife, 14.
- of health, 99.
- Sea-bathing, in pregnancy, 125.
- Sea water good for hair, 46.
- Servants taught the “ologies,” 92.
- Shivering during labor, 201.
- “Show,” a sure sign of labor, 200.
- Shower-bath in pregnancy, 125.
- Sick pregnancies, 161.
- Sickness during labor, 201.
- Signs of the fœtal circulation (note) 123.
- Sitting over fire, 27.
- Sitz-bath, the value of, 44, 124, 172.
- Skin of the abdomen cracked, 154.
- Skylight the best ventilator, 128.
- Sleep in pregnancy, 137.
- the choicest gift, 77.
- the value of, immediately after labor, 238.
- for young wife, 78.
- Sleepiness of pregnant females, 138.
- Sleeplessness of pregnant females, 138.
- Slipper bed-pan, 239, 244.
- Sluggard’s dwelling, 71.
- “Smoking dunghill,” a, 131.
- Sore nipples, 277.
- Spirits during suckling, 268.
- Spurious labor pains, 183.
- Stages of labor, 213.
- Stays should not be worn during labor, 218.
- Stocking, elastic, 153.
- Stomach, functions of, 271.
- Subsidence of the womb before labor, 199.
- “Suck-pap,” 258.
- Suckling, 255.
- when female is pregnant, 300.
- Suppers, hearty meal, 52.
- Support to bowels after confinement, 236.
- Swedish ladies, 91.
- Swollen legs in pregnancy, 152.
- Symptoms of labor, 199.
- denoting necessity of weaning, 298.
- Table of duration of pregnancy, 185.
- Taking, the frequent, of physic, 31.
- Teat, india-rubber, and shield, 276.
- Teeth frequently decay in pregnancy, 156.
- Temperature of a lying-in room, 237.
- “The top of the morning,” 72.
- Things which will be wanted at a labor, 216.
- Tic-douloureux, 157.
- Tight lacing injurious to a young wife, 81.
- ill effects of, in pregnancy, 123.
- Time when a child should be weaned, 293.
- Toothache in pregnancy, 155.
- Tooth extraction, the danger of, in pregnancy, 155.
- “Trap to catch sunbeam,” 81.
- True labor pains, 202.
- “Trying of a pain,” 221.
- “Turn of years,” 115.
- Unladylike, on being, 96.
- Urine, retention of, 240.
- Vaginal syringe, 196.
- Veal-and-milk broth, 251.
- Veins, enlarged, of the leg, 152.
- Ventilation, importance of, 33, 128.
- manner of performing, 34.
- of lying-in room, 254.
- thorough, 36.
- Visitors in a lying-in room, 238.
- Walk before breakfast, 47.
- Walking glorious exercise, 23.
- Warm ablutions after labor, 245.
- baths for infants apparently still-born, 231.
- Water poisoned by drains, 132.
- Waters, “the breaking of the,” 202.
- Weaning, 292.
- Weaning an infant, the method of, 294.
- Wellington, the Duke of, 67.
- Westmoreland and Cumberland poor women, 229.
- Wet-nurses’ and mother’s milk, 265.
- Whining and repining, 95.
- “Whites” during pregnancy, 169.
- cause miscarriage, 112.
- when not pregnant, 112.
- Wife, a domestic, 90.
- educated to be useful, 90.
- instructing servants, 92.
- the mission of a, 22.
- the profession of a, 90.
- young, 13.
- Wine, abuse of, 57.
- bibbing causes barrenness, 57.
- drinking of, 55.
- in France, 61.
- on children taking, 61.
- much injures complexion, 64.
- during suckling, 267.
- Womb, bearing down of, 247.
- Work, a cure for many ailments, 93.
- Wormwood on nipples in weaning, 296.