Chapter I: Front Matter

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.

BY
REBECCA CRUMPLER, M. D.

BOSTON:
CASHMAN, KEATING & CO., PRINTERS.
FAYETTE COURT, 603 WASHINGTON ST.
1883.

Copyright 1883,
By REBECCA CRUMPLER, M.D.

DEDICATION.

TO

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 36

X. The Milk Fever 40

XI. Precautions after the month—Proper and Improper Diet 45

XII. General Treatment of Infants 52

XIII. Time for Weaning 57

XIV. Sects. 1, 2, 3, 4. Cholera Infantum _versus_ Starvation 61

XV. The Causes and Prevention of Cholera Infantum 76

XVI. Convenient Methods for Raising Infants without the Breast 80

XVII. Teething made easy, Secs. 1, 2 90

XVIII. Complications of Teething with Diseases 98

XIX. General Remarks 105

Part Second. Miscellaneous Information 120