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A BOOK
OF
Medical Discourses
IN TWO PARTS.

PART FIRST:
TREATING OF THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF INFANTILE BOWEL COMPLAINTS, FROM BIRTH TO THE CLOSE OF THE TEETHING PERIOD, OR TILL AFTER THE FIFTH YEAR.

PART SECOND:
CONTAINING MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LIFE AND GROWTH OF BEINGS; THE BEGINNING OF WOMANHOOD; ALSO, THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF MANY OF THE MOST DISTRESSING COMPLAINTS OF WOMEN, AND YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES.

REBECCA CRUMPLER, M. D.

BOSTON:

CASHMAN, KEATING & CO., PRINTERS.

Fayette Court, 603 Washington St.

1883.

By Rebecca Crumpler, M.D.

DEDICATION.

MOTHERS, NURSES,

AND ALL WHO MAY DESIRE TO MITIGATE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE HUMAN RACE,

THIS BOOK

IS PRAYERFULLY OFFERED.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.		PAGE.

	Introduction	1

I.	How to Marry	5

II.	The Present Modes of Washing and Dressing the New-born	7

III.	Preparations for Confinement	11

IV.	The Better Mode of Washing the New-born	14

V.	Necessity of Agreeable and Soothing Surroundings	18

VI.	Nursing from the Breast made easy	20

VII.	The Uselessness of “Baby Medicines” during the Month	25

VIII.	Dropping of the Navel Cord	32

IX.	Artificial Nursing	... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!