LADIES' GUIDE
TO
HEALTH AND BEAUTY
OR MAIDENHOOD
MARRIAGE AND MATERNITY.

PART II
THE HUMAN PELVIS AND ORGANS OF GENERATION

CHAPTER XIII
PARTURITION, OR LABOR.

- First Symptoms of Labor
- "Grinding Pains"
- Shivering Sensations
- Stomach Sickness
- Bearing Down and Cramps
- Labor a Natural Process
- Forced Assistance Dangerous
- Use of Instruments
- Average Time of Labor
- The After Pains
- Three Stages of Labor
- Directions to Nurses
- Position of the Patient
- Costiveness 
- Use of Chloroform
- What if the Doctor is Absent?
- Stillbriths, and How to Treat Them
- The Afterbirth
- Clothing After Labor
- Rest and Refreshment
- Bandaging 
- The Sick room
- Attention to the Bladder
- Treatment for the Bowels
- Ignorant Nurses
- Quietude and Employment

Preface | Index
01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30
31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35

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