Chapter I: Front Matter

TOKOLOGY

A Book for Every Woman

BY

ALICE B. STOCKHAM, M. D.

ILLUSTRATED

Maternal love! Thou word that sums all bliss;
Gives and receives all bliss, fullest when most
Thou givest!

--_Pollock_

_REVISED EDITION_

R. F. FENNO & COMPANY
18 EAST 17TH ST., NEW YORK

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1893,
BY ALICE B. STOCKHAM, M. D.
In the office of Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886,
BY ALICE B. STOCKHAM, M. D.
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883,
By ALICE B. STOCKHAM, M. D.
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

TOKOLOGY IS DEDICATED

FIRST:

TO MY DAUGHTER,
WHOSE FAITH IN THE PHYSICAL
REDEMPTION OF WOMAN BY CORRECT
LIVING HAS BEEN A CONSTANT
INSPIRATION IN ITS
PRODUCTION!

SECOND:

TO ALL WOMEN
WHO, FOLLOWING THE LESSONS
HEREIN TAUGHT, WILL BE SAVED THE
SUFFERINGS PECULIAR TO
THEIR SEX.

CONTENTS.

PORTRAIT OF AUTHOR.

CHAPTER I.

PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH.

Painless childbirth--Testimony of travelers, missionaries and
physicians--Sufferings in childbirth greater in this country than in
any other--Is this a curse upon woman?--Indian women do not suffer
in labor--Dr. Dewees--Prof. Huxley--Remarkable cases of parturition
without pain--Author’s professional experience--Anecdote
of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes--Proofs of science--Lay aside
prejudice 17-24

CHAPTER II.

CONCEPTION--FETAL DEVELOPMENT.

The reproductive apparatus--The ovaries--The oviducts--The uterus--The
vagina--Mammary glands--Conception--Law of conception--Development
of the embryo--The placenta--Fetal circulation--Blue
baby--Duration of pregnancy--Growth of the embryo--Eight
months baby 25-36

CHAPTER III.

PREGNANCY--SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS.

Four physical signs--Cessation of menses--Increase of
size--Quickening--Fetal heart-beat--Positive indication of
pregnancy--Pathological symptoms--Physicians offer no relief--A
woman’s sad experience 37-41

CHAPTER IV.

DISEASES OF PREGNANCY--INDIGESTION, NAUSEA, ETC.

Indigestion a common ailment--Starch and fats the prime cause of
dyspepsia--Children’s food is given to the pigs--Morning sickness--Is
it a natural symptom?--Biliousness, what is it?--Enemas,
their uses--Do not force the appetite--Tradition’s teachings--Will
the fetus starve? 42-50

CHAPTER V.

DISEASES OF PREGNANCY--CONSTIPATION.

Most women suffer from constipation--Causes--Hot bread--White
flour--Baking powders--Errors in dress--Cathartic
drugs--Treatment--Wally and the Lockport entire wheat
bread--Wheatlet--Cracked or rolled wheat--How Charlie was
cured--Feast on fruits--Foods, laxative and constipating--Special
exercises--Going without supper 51-73

CHAPTER VI.

DISEASES OF PREGNANCY--HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, HEARTBURN.

Headache--Tea and sick headache--Headache can be
cured--Treatment--Heartburn--Flatulence--Hemorrhoids--Greedy
appetite-Loss of appetite--Longings--Diarrhea--Neuralgia--Case from
practice--Burning feet--Cramps--Swelling of
extremities--Sleeplessness--Leucorrhea--Pruritus 74-89

CHAPTER VII.

HYGIENE OF PREGNANCY--DRESS.

Congenial surroundings--Overtaxed mothers--An old lady’s story--An
every-day experience--Lucrative work--An author’s interesting
testimony--Prophecy for the future--Dress and fashion--Common sense
shoes--Can ladies stand in street cars?--Union under-garments--The
chemiloon--The princess garment--Bates
waist--The divided skirt--Equestrian tights--Dress and freedom
for women--Dress in pregnancy--What corset can be worn--Fashion
in deformity 90-110

CHAPTER VIII.

HYGIENE IN PREGNANCY--BATHING.

The water cure mania--The “ounce of prevention”--“A coat of mail”--The
sitz-bath the very best bath for a pregnant woman--Fomentations--Save
doctors’ visits--Hot water bottles--Cold compress--Foot
and leg bath--The Turkish bath--Thermal bath at
home--Queen of baths 111-123

CHAPTER IX.

HYGIENE IN PREGNANCY--DIET.

Avoid fats and sweets--The chemist’s theory--Proper food prevents
pain in childbirth--Mrs. Rowbotham’s experience--Marvelously
easy labor and rapid recovery--Interesting testimony from the
wife of a Michigan judge--Mrs. ---- could get no doctor, and
child born without pain!--She believes pain in childbirth
unnecessary--Extraordinary experience!--Scientific theory accidentally
proved--A boon to every woman--Bill of fare for every day in the
week--Analysis of food 124-137

CHAPTER X.

HYGIENE IN PREGNANCY--EXERCISE.

Motion a law of nature--Nest building--Home labor delights the
heart--Contact with the earth a “cure-all”--Waist breathing--Educate
the muscles--Massage--Muscle beater--Military position--Exercises
in pregnancy--Climbing stairs during gestation--Rules
for climbing stairs and hills--Delsarte 138-149

CHAPTER XI.

CHASTITY IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION.

Rights of children--Popular theories--Social evil--Who are the
prostitutes?--Touching experience--Lessons for husbands--Theory of
continence--A New Testament Lesson--Continence in pregnancy--Its
influence upon pain at parturition--Influence upon
offspring--Men reverence the maternal in woman--Parenthood
and progress--Motherhood, central fact in human
life 150-162

CHAPTER XII.

VENTILATION--REST.

A pregnant woman breathes for two--Open fire places in sleeping
rooms--Charcoal pit easily constructed--Fresh air in
bedrooms--Drafts--Cold air not pure air--The nose a
sentinel--Unslaked lime and charcoal--Interesting experiments--A
daily siesta needed--How one mother slept--Recapitulation--Mrs.
Stanton’s experience--A girl is as good as a boy 163-173

CHAPTER XIII.

PARTURITION.

What are labor pains?--Stages of labor--Bag of waters--Necessary
preparations--Directions for making the bed--Management during
the first stage--Meddlesome midwifery--Cutting the cord--A
new heresy--No child should be washed as soon as it is born--Delivery
of the after-birth--Should the bandage be applied?--Castor
oil--Rest, the best remedy 174-182

CHAPTER XIV.

DYSTOCIA.

Difficult labor--Caustic treatment a frequent cause--Hot sitz-bath
overcomes rigidity--A very remarkable case--Notes from practice--Ergot
and cohosh--Their poisonous effects--Instruments--Temptation
of physicians--Women can make instruments known in
tradition only 183-189

CHAPTER XV.

POST PARTUM DISEASES.

Daily bath--Compress--Sitz-bath--Very best food--Cases in Home of the
Friendless--No need of milk fever--Abscess of the breast--Excoriated
nipples--Insufficient milk--Drink new or hot milk--Do
not use ale or beer--Excessive flow of milk--After-pains--The
lochia--Hemorrhage--Childbed fever--Causes to be avoided--Dr.
Playfair’s opinion--Treatment must be prompt 190-203

CHAPTER XVI.

INFANTS, THEIR CARE AT BIRTH AND DURING EARLY INFANCY.

A new being--Need of rest--An oil bath--Dressing the
navel--Clothing--Useful suggestions--Habits of cleanliness can be
secured--Nursing--Mother’s milk the natural food--Best artificial
food--Causes of mortality in hand-fed children--Artificial human
milk--Analysis of milk--Care of the bottle--Time of
weaning--Meat-fed children 204-216

CHAPTER XVII.

DISEASES OF INFANTS.

Aphtha--Excoriation--Colic--Mother’s friend--Soothing
syrup--Constipation--Diarrhea--Dysentery--Summer
complaint--Inflammation of the bowels--Dentition--Lancing
the gums--Starchy food Remedies 217-231

CHAPTER XVIII.

DISEASES OF INFANTS--CONTINUED.

Worms--Incontinence of urine--Retention of urine--Croup, the mother’s
terror--True and false croup--A sovereign remedy--Diphtheria--Popular
remedies--Contagious diseases--Scarlet fever--Tabular
differences between scarlet fever and measles--Whooping
cough--Convulsions--Practical suggestions 232-242

CHAPTER XIX.

ABORTION.

Prevention--Treatment--Feticide--Viability of the embryo--Two
wrongs cannot make one right--Maternal instinct inherent--Incentives
to produce abortion--Unwelcome children 243-251

CHAPTER XX.

MENSTRUATION.

Definition--Cause--Should be devoid of
suffering--Disorders--Suppression--Painful menstruation--Errors in
dress--Lack of exercise--Romping girls--Wrong diet--Heat, a sovereign
remedy--Remarkable cases--Flowing, Remedies 252-262

CHAPTER XXI.

DISEASES OF WOMEN.

Nine-tenths of American women have these maladies--Common-sense
hints--Inflammation--Mental sufferings--A cause of
insanity--Ulceration--Induration--Errors in dress and
diet--Sitz-bath--Thermal bath--Injections--Valuable
exercises--Caustic treatment--Acids and probes--Sufferings induced
and prolonged--Physicians taking the back track--Reforms effected by
the protest of the people--Leucorrhea--Displacements--Hysteria 263-275

CHAPTER XXII.

CHANGE OF LIFE.

A scape-goat of physicians--What is the meno-pause?--Irregularity--Hot
flashes--Profuse perspiration--Hemorrhage--Mental symptoms--Nature
creates no pathological conditions--Therapeutic
measures--Natural remedies--Simple habits 276-285