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Advice to a wife and mother in two parts
Pye Henry Chavasse
Chavasse turned his bedside manner to the wife and mother-to-be, guiding her through menstruation, the signs of pregnancy, clothing and fresh air. His two-part advice book was a fixture on many a nineteenth-century shelf, blunt and kindly by turns. Read it as period wellness culture and social history, never as present-day medical counsel. Overhear the confidences of a Victorian doctor.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
97 chapters
- 1ADVICE TO A WIFE AND MOTHER. IN TWO PARTS. EMBRACING ADVICE TO A WIFE, AND ADVICE TO A MOTHER.
- 2ADVICE TO A WIFE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HER OWN HEALTH, AND ON THE TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE COMPLAINTS INCIDENTAL TO PREGNANCY, LABOR, AND SUCKLING; WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER ESPECIALLY ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG WIFE.
- 3PREFACE.
- 4CONTENTS.
- 5INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
- 6PART I. MENSTRUATION.
- 7PART II. PREGNANCY.
- 8SIGNS OF PREGNANCY.
- 9CLOTHING.
- 10ABLUTION.
- 11AIR AND EXERCISE.
- 12VENTILATION—DRAINAGE.
- 13NECESSITY OF OCCASIONAL REST.
- 14DIETARY.
- 15SLEEP.
- 16MEDICINE.
- 17MISCARRIAGE.
- 18FALSE LABOR PAINS.
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