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... confinement , be safer to use a tepid instead of a cold water enema . No family ought to be without a good enema apparatus , to fly to in any emergency . Many valuable lives have been saved by means of it , and having it always in good ...
... confinement , be safer to use a tepid instead of a cold water enema . No family ought to be without a good enema apparatus , to fly to in any emergency . Many valuable lives have been saved by means of it , and having it always in good ...
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... confinement . She will most probably not only herself have a hard and lingering childbirth , but her innocent babe will most likely be either stillborn , or under - sized or unhealthy . Statistics prove that 20 per cent , -20 in every ...
... confinement . She will most probably not only herself have a hard and lingering childbirth , but her innocent babe will most likely be either stillborn , or under - sized or unhealthy . Statistics prove that 20 per cent , -20 in every ...
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... confinement , a woman who had been married thirty - five years . " " 214. In very warm climates , such as in Abyssinia and in India , girls menstruate when very young , -- at ten or eleven years old ; indeed , they are sometimes mothers ...
... confinement , a woman who had been married thirty - five years . " " 214. In very warm climates , such as in Abyssinia and in India , girls menstruate when very young , -- at ten or eleven years old ; indeed , they are sometimes mothers ...
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... confinement , she were to bathe her nipples , every night and morning , for five minutes each time , either with eau de Cologne , or with brandy and water , equal parts of each . The better plan will be to have the brandy and water in a ...
... confinement , she were to bathe her nipples , every night and morning , for five minutes each time , either with eau de Cologne , or with brandy and water , equal parts of each . The better plan will be to have the brandy and water in a ...
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... confinement , avoiding for the first few days stimulants of all kinds . Many women date their ill state of health to a neglected miscarriage ; it therefore behoves a lady to guard against such a catastrophe . 424. A patient prone to ...
... confinement , avoiding for the first few days stimulants of all kinds . Many women date their ill state of health to a neglected miscarriage ; it therefore behoves a lady to guard against such a catastrophe . 424. A patient prone to ...
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Page 73 - 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.
Page 79 - Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill : A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With...
Page 45 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 163 - 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.
Page 47 - Where no hope is, life's a warning That only serves to make us grieve, When we are old...
Page 51 - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Page 74 - The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.
Page 78 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull w Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dulL What power is it which mounts my love so high; That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
Page 60 - Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use? To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint. But since, alas! frail beauty must decay...
Page 3 - Against Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight : that Thou mightest be justified in Thy saying, and clear when Thou art judged. 5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness : and in sin hath my mother conceived me.