Hints to Mothers on the Management of Health During the Period of Pregnancy, and in the Lying-in-room ...

PREFACE

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THE FIRST EDITION.

In the minds of married women, and especially in young females, those feelings of delicacy naturally and commendably exist which prevent a full disclosure of their circumstances, when they find it necessary to consult their medical advisers. To meet this difficulty, as well as to counteract the ill-advised suggestions of ignorant persons during the period of confinement — are the chief objects of the following pages.

While it is believed that much of the information contained in this volume is highly important to the comfort and even to the well-doing of the married female, much of it is, at the same time, of a character upon which she cannot easily obtain

satisfaction. She will find no difficulty in read-
ing information, for which she would find it in-
superably difficult to ask.

There are many little circumstances, too, in
which it does not occur to her to seek for advice,
of the nature and result of which she ought not
to be ignorant. Young married women are espe-
cially liable to many needless, yet harassing fears,
which it has been the anxious object of the Author
to remove, by showing that they have no founda-
tion in truth. It has often been necessary to be
minute; but that, it is imagined, will not be re-
garded as an imperfection.

The Author's connection for some years past
with a large and important Midwifery Institution
has led him to direct especial attention to the
important subject upon which he has ventured to
appear before the public; and he must leave his
work with them, in the hope that he has not
written altogether in vain.

Finsbury Square.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH DURING PREGNANCY, AND OF

POPULAR ERRORS ON THIS SUBJECT.