An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.

  • Cooke, William, 1785-1873
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    often urge the necessity of premature rising to dinner or tea, to promote cheer¬ fulness. Within the last few weeks, though spirits had been decidedly prohibited in a case of first parturition, as sooh as the practitioner had left, the nurse so boldly urged some brandy, that the lady could not refuse compliance. The obtrusiveness and loquacity of this person very mate¬ rially affected the recovery of an interest¬ ing woman. We express ourselves strongly and decidedly on this point, because we pity a delicate inexperienced female, who happens at so critical a moment to be ma¬ naged by an ignorant or obtrusive nurse; and because we have no question that most of the evils which spring up subse¬ quently to parturition, arise from the con¬ travention of proper orders, either respect¬ ing quietude or diet. During the first few days or week in all cases the entire regula¬ tion of even minute particulars should be under the direction of the medical attend¬ ant; and in some cases this attention must be carried farther. It must not be tole¬ rated that a woman who shall have had the longest experience, and who may even