| Description |
1038 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The founding of a home -- 2. Making marriage a success -- 3. Sex physiology and hygiene -- 4. The beginning of a new life -- 5. The health of the expectant mother -- 6. The confinement -- 7. Ailments associated with pregnancy -- 8. Abortion, premature labour, and complications of delivery -- 9. The care of the infant -- 10. Feeding the baby -- 11. Affections of the new-born child -- 12. Disorders of the digestive organs during infancy -- 13. The healthy child -- 14. Nutritional diseases of childhood; Disorders of digestive organs -- 15. Diseases of the chest -- 16. Diseases of the heart and of the blood -- 17. Disease of the urinary and genital organs -- 18. Diseases of the nervous system, and mental defects -- 19. Diseases of the skin -- 20. Diseases of the nose, throat, and ear -- 21. The eye and its ailments -- 22. The infectious diseases -- 23. Tuberculosis -- 24. On the threshold of womanhood -- 25. Dress and its relation to health -- 26. Menstruation -- 27. Diseases of the external genitals and of the vagina -- 28. Diseases of the uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes -- 29. Diseases of the urinary bladder and of the rectum -- 30. Diseases of the breasts -- 31. Sterility -- 32. The change of life, or menopause -- 33. Venereal, or social diseases -- 34. The health of the middle-aged woman -- 25. Simple treatments -- 26. First aid in the home -- Glossary -- Indexes |
| Analysis |
Medicine, Popular |
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Women--Health and hygiene |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Subject |
Children -- Diseases.
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Children -- Health and hygiene.
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Home nursing.
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Medicine, Popular.
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Women -- Diseases.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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