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In conclusion, I fervently hope that this little book will, through God's blessing, be to my fair reader, during the whole period of her wifehood, a friend in her need, a guide in her difficulties, and a silent but safe counsellor in all things pertaining to her health. I sincerely trust that it will give her as much pleasure in the reading of these pages as it has given me in the writing of them. I have, in order to make the book as useful as possible, taken great pains with it, and have on the subject "read well myself "thus following the advice of Chaucer

"Rede well thy selfe, that other folks canst rede
And trouth thee shall deliver; it is no drede."

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Age at which menstruation commences, Bedstead, a four-post, in labour, 188.
89.

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Beef-tea, how to make (note), 214.
"Being out in reckoning," 165.
"Belly labour," 188.

Beverage after labour, 216.

the best for young wife, 43.
during "getting about," 215.
in hot weather, 216.

for mother whose child is ill,
232.

Bidet should be regularly used, 117.
Birth, four at a (note), 89, 90.
Bladder, irritability of, 146.

importance of attending to, 195.
in pregnancy, 146.
sluggishness of, 146.

state of, after confinement, 207.

Blessedness of patience, 192.
"Blue-stocking," as a wife, 75.
Bosom after labour, 223.

Bowels to be opened before labour, 190.
Bowels, if regular, no aperient required,
209, 249.

Bowel complaints of pregnancy, 146.
Bowels, state of, after labour, 208.
Boy or girl? 166.

Brandy to be in the lying-in room, 194.
drinking, daily, 44.

on the use of, during labour,
170, 194, 204.

Bran-bread as an aperient, 81, 247.
Breakfast for young wife, 38-40.
a meagre, 38-40.

Breast-drawer, 224.

during suckling, 223.

full and uneasy, 224, 241.

in second and in succeeding con-
finements, 225.

painful during pregnancy, 145.

gathered, 241.

causes of, 241, 242.

importance of early

treatment, 245.

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Champagne-cup, 49.

Change of air for delicate wife, 78.
"Change of life," 101.

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Change of life, great importance of not

neglecting, 103, 106.
bleeding of nose, 104.
eruptions on skin, 105.
and obesity, 102, 104, 105.
and pains in breast, 104.
and peculiar pains, 104.
and piles, 105.

of room after labour, 218.
Cheerful wife, 71.
Cheerfulness, cultivation of, 70, 80.

and good stomach, 233, 234.
during labour, 192.
and occupation, 71.

Child-bed woman timid, 193.

Child born before arrival of medical
man, 199.

should be gradually weaned, 252.

Childless house, 20.

Chimney, on stopping, 29,

Chlorodyne, 61.

Costiveness during pregnancy, 129.
a cause of hard labour, 132.

"Count," 159.

the method of making, 160.
a plan to make, 160.
Table, 161.
Country, on living in, 169.
Coverlets, knitted, 127.
Crabbe on wine, 52.

Cramp of the bowels, 148.
Cramp of the legs and thighs in preg-
nancy, 148.

Cream, butter and sugar, 42.
Creasote in toothache, 141.
"Croakers," during labour, 169.
Croquet, best of games, 68.
Crying out when in pain, 187.
Curates' wives, 31.

DANCING, danger of young wife, 68.
during pregnancy, 68.

Dangers of wine drinking, 43.
of early marriages, 86.

Daylight, importance of, 63.

into dirty places, 64.
Depression of spirits during suckling,

231.

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of making water, 195.

Dinners and tempers, 74.
Disinfectants, 120.

Dissipation and barrenness, 19.

Chloroform in hard and lingering labour, Domette bandages, 140.

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Dozing, ill effects of, 54.
Drainage, 122.

Dress for labour, 190.

for young wife, 65-67.

"Drying up the milk," 253.
Duration of menstruation, 89.
Duties of a nursing mother, 235.
of a wife, 71.

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Enema, for costiveness, 80.

for lying-in patient, 208.

Enemata of tepid water, 132.
Ewers and basins, Lilliputian, 34.
Exercise for a young wife, 21-28.
a necessity, 21.

before breakfast, 37.
best aperient, 127.
for the delicate, 23.
immense importance of, 21.
in close carriages, 25.
in pregnancy, 117.
during suckling, 232.

fresh air and occupation during
pregnancy, 118.

in open air after labour, 218.
promotes sleep, 59.
Exertion gives exhilaration, 71.

FAINTING in pregnancy, 147.
Faintness during suckling, 247.
"Falling of the womb," 213.
Falling off of the hair, 37.
False labour pains, 158.
Fashion and barrenness, 31.

Fashionable system of spending married
life, 18.

Fat and pregnancy, how to distinguish
between, 113.

Feet, cold, exercise the remedy for, 26.
and legs, bathing, 36.

Females who have sick pregnancies, 144.
"Female slipper," 207, 210.
"Fidgets," treatment of, 134.

Fire-guard in lying-in room grate, 205.
Fire, ill effects of sitting near, 24.
Flannel, 190.

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