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                       MOTHER, NURSE AND INFANT:

                                A MANUAL

   ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE GUIDANCE OF MOTHERS AND MONTHLY NURSES,

                COMPRISING FULL INSTRUCTION IN REGARD TO

                Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-Birth,

                                  AND

                     The Care of Mother and Child,

    AND DESIGNED TO IMPART SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE OF ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY,
 MIDWIFERY, AND THE PROPER USE OF MEDICINES AS WILL SERVE INTELLIGENTLY
        TO DIRECT THE WIFE, MOTHER AND NURSE IN ALL EMERGENCIES.


                        BY S. P. SACKETT, M. D.

                               NEW YORK:
                      H. CAMPBELL CO., PUBLISHERS
                           140–142 NASSAU ST.
                                 1889.




                           COPYRIGHTED, 1889,

                                  —BY—

                             S. P. SACKETT.

                         _All rights reserved._


 PRESS OF E. D. NORTON,
     ITHACA, N. Y.

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                                PREFACE.


The object of the author in writing this volume is to offer to nurses,
and especially to those women who desire to make “monthly nursing” a
vocation, the instruction which they need for that purpose, sufficiently
illustrated and at a moderate price.

The book is written under a firm conviction in the mind of the author
that a work of this character is needed at the present time—a work that
combines some information to the monthly nurse in regard to her peculiar
duties with considerable instruction in midwifery. He has many times
heard inquiries made for a book of this kind and has not been able to
point to one of the character desired. He has learned during the
forty-five