Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Vlll CONTENTS. male Organs and Charms—425. Appeal to Man—126. Early Marriage* and young Mothers—427. Tight Lacing : its ruinous Effects on Offspring —423. Requisition for Heat, Muscle, Bone, Nitrogen, etc.—Muscle- Nitrogen—Fruit—42.9. Offsetting the Mother's Excesses and Defects— 430. Marks and Deformities—A Strawberry mark—A Lobster mark— Mouse marks—Plum marks—Cherry marks—Amputated Thumb—A Wine mark—Turning black and blue—Fire mark—A mark of intoxi- cation—A Menagery mark—A Monkey mark—An idiotic mark—Mark by fright—A broken back—Mrs. Butler and her strong, but frantic Idiot—A club-footed mark—A Cat mark—The mashed Head—Dumb- ness—Hankering after Gin—Explanation of these Marks. . . 18-105 SECTION III. INFLUENCE OF THE VARIOUS STATES OF MATERNAL MEN- TALITY, OR THE PRIMITIVE CHARACTER OF OFFSPRING. 431. The Child's Mentality derived directly from its Mother's Hagar and Ishmael—Samuel and his Mother—Mary and Christ—lio* naparte's fcetal History—James I.—A timid Friend of the Author— Mrs. D. and her Children—A half-starved, despairing Mother—The Son who could never face his Father—A foolish, but fiendish Son—A provoked Mother and provoking Child—Mrs. M'C. and her Bonaparte- admiring Son—Sweetness of temper in the Mother—Duty of Husbands to their Wives at this period—Bad-tempered Children to be pitied— The bad-dispositioned Daughter—How to secure Affection in Children— Fear and Anxiety in Mothers—432. How to endow Children with superior natural Intellects before Birth—The arithmetical Girl—Zera Colburn's foetal History—433. Securing Balance in Offspring—The Regimen requiisd at different 6tages of Advancement—434. Appeal to Mothers 106-I5f- SECTION IV. DELIVERY ITS PAINS LESSENED 435. Severe Labor-Pains unnatural and avoidable—Are they necet- lary 7—Natural Delivery easy—Causes of severe and dangerous Labor—