Advice to a Wife on the Management of Her Own Health and on the Treatment of Some of the Complaints Incidental to Pregnancy, Labour, and Suckling: With an Introductory Chapter Especially Addressed to a Young WifeJ.W. Lovell, 1880 - 264 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
ablution advice allowed aperient apply babe become better blood body bosom bowels brandy bread breast breathing bronchitis calomel Castile soap castor oil cause chest child chloroform cold water comfort costive cure dangerous delicate diet digestion diphtheria disease doctor dose drachms dress drink early enema especially exercise flannel flatulence frequently fresh air girl give gums half infant inflammation Ipecacuanha keep labour lady liniment live lungs lying-in magnesia means meat medicine menstruation milk miscarriage monthly nurse months morning mother necessary never night nipple nourishing ounces pain patient plenty poison poultice powder pregnancy prevent proper quantity recommended remedy requires rickets salt scarlet fever sickness Simple Syrup skin sleep small-pox sometimes soon sponge stomach suckling sugar symptoms table-spoonful tea-spoonful teeth treatment usually ventilation walk warm water washed wet-nurse wife wine woman womb young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 71 - Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
עמוד 76 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
עמוד 63 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
עמוד 80 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven ; the fated sky Give us free scope ; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
עמוד 110 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
עמוד 174 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
עמוד 59 - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
עמוד 73 - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
עמוד 68 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
עמוד 60 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.