Children, their hydropathic management in health and disease : a descriptive and practical work, designed as a guide for families and physicians.

  • Shew, Joel, 1816-1855.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Children, their hydropathic management in health and disease : a descriptive and practical work, designed as a guide for families and physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    in regard to precocious Marriages in this Country—Answer to his Arguments—The earlier Children of a Marriage apt to be more Healthy than the later—Custom of Society as fixing the proper Time for Marriage—-Dr. Granville's Table—Early Mar- riages on the whole to be recommended 23 CHAPTER III. Who should Marry, and Who not—A Discussion on the Subject— Scrofula considered—An unhealthy Child may experience much more Happiness than Misery in this Life—A Case in Point—No Persons are perfectly Healthy—Health and Disease, to a certain Extent, relative Terms—Disease may be eradicated by good In- fluences, on the same Principle that it may be brought on by bad Influences—Practical Inferences from the Subject 20 CHAPTER IV. The Health of the Offspring depends greatly on the Health of the Mother during Pregnancy—Abortion, a very serious Evil—A public lack of Knowledge on the Subject—The Effects of Mis- carriage—Prevention—Persons who are most liable to this Evil— Cold bathing, a Remedy for Abortion—Vaginal Injections use- ful—Effects of Feather Beds and overheated Rooms—The Vege- table Diet—Hemorrhage from the Womb—Abortion, a more se- rious Matter than is generally supposed—The older the Habit the worse it becomes—Very feeble Persons should avoid Preg- nancy—Dr. Cheyne's Opinions concerning this Evil 32 CHAPTER V. Of Blood-letting in Pregnancy—Erroneous Opinions on the Sub- ject—Reasons why Blood-letting has been practiced in this state of the System—Nausea and Vomiting an Evidence of benevolent Design in the Creator—Blood-letting not a harmless Practice— Anima} Food—Of Longing in Pregnancy—Singular Facts in re- gard to this Symptom—The most disgusting Articles sometimes craved—Longing does not occur in Persons of good Health, or of good Habits—It should not be gratified—Different Opinions on the Subject 39