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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    think as strangely of any man who would strenuously deny his existence, as that females experience what are popularly termed longings during the pregnant state. There are some remarkable facts on record concern- ing the symptoms which I am considering, and which would go to prove that it is not always the good things of this world that are longed for. If women were always in the habit of craving good and savory dishes under these circumstances, we should have some reason to suspect them of dishonesty in regard to the reality of longing; but when the fickle and morbid appetite is found often to crave the most unrelishable articles, we must admit the truth of the doctrine of which we are speaking. A lady has been known, who, wThen not pregnant, hav- ing a great horror of eating eels, and yet when in this situation she has demanded them with an importunity not to be resisted. She would not only eat them with avidity, but in large and repeated quantities, for the first few months; she wrould then become indifferent to them, but not averse, until after her delivery. A woman pregnant, riding over a common, has scent- ed spoiled shad that had been thrown out, and became instantly so fascinated by their odor, that she obliged her husband to take some of them into his gig; and as soon as she arrived at home, began to eat of them, raw as they were, and continued to do so daily until they were consumed, though they were extremely offensive to every body else in the house. A woman pregnant, while passing through her kitch- en, has taken a disgusting piece of bacon boiling in a