Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-20
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The Lady's Medical Peekel-Book
AND
NURSERY-ADyIS

~ Unmarried Fomaes: Directions Pregnant and
Lying 10 Women and account Of their Diseasesi to-
gether with Instructions tot the Rearing Of children
fun the hour of thrir Brth and account of the Dis
of Infancy. II, the neiher Of Tho Gentenans
Medical fseket Book. Price 30 cts.
The rapid salennd universal appreciation which the
GFEfLtaASs NEpIeAL PocklT Book has met with,
hnseindueed thu publishers 10 engage he intent. of the
sumo Anhar In the prodartion oi n MEDICAL Pocket
BOOK, expressl, lor the use ~ FEMALES.
Ava ling ttcmselve- al hints obtaincd from different
respectable they hefe resent To the public nm
account OF the causes symptoms aud treatment OF tho'e
Diseases which perulaf tn tia Female sex md Ia
lnf,ns they have emhinc ed In H. Blao the ger orol
rules Tor the Preservation of the Health and Comfnt If
Females duriag the Single mud Marriage sete and d.
rectons for the proper Roaring o Children IN reference
10 cir Diet and Regimen; whilst In an Appendix j.
added short treatise on Int all ahsorhing subject Ep
demc Cholera.
The Publishers feel persuaded that the work will By
onnd in every respect worthy The attention OF the sex 10
which 1t Is especially dedicated; and that Mothers viii
find in il useful manuel oi instruction for their guidance
during Pregnancy, in the Lyingin Chamber. mud in the
| Nursery.
The mennahy VIII Oh the full development. Of the body
md The health vigor aud activity of the human System
are best aromoed and maintained, unit itunaely
to, liItlr attended tn by the Femnc sex, Aud vet In
,heu consideration the frmule Il Urged by the powerful
motives of duty md acf Beauty onunot. To
renlty exist. independent Of health: the means which
tend To preserve the ono ing equal, calcuntcd To i'm
prove aud promote the other; while the first Is nhsoute
ly unaainablc by any practice Inconsistent with tho lat
ter In vain does The nnle hope improve her skin
to give roseae hue 10 her cnmpecon or to aug
ment the grace d symmetry her orm unjnss she ia
eauti us prese, the whole frame in hcath, vRour
and activity. Beauty of complexion, and, certain
extent thai of shape also, Ia oihnR tlan visible
henlthu pure mirror OF the perfect peroi Of the
iternn functions ut HE and OF their harmony with the
external portions or the sys'omthe certain effects of
pune air, chcernnes-. temperance, aud nj exercise
| imrededhy any~peeTes OF unnatural restraint
There is however sill more important roasen why,
Independent oi ali considerations conneetei with pefSo
al IuTtu ala ahD
the attention OF tho Youthful mir;t we'll being of
thoso who may 10 her their existence. The fact
Tint upon her own heh depend in very great measure
the health, freedom from lcormit nnd future useful
ness, often thu lite of her offspring Tail Ia
recommend those mcHns uost strongly to the attention
pf her who desires to bn hailed by the ondenrng appel
faion of mother and To experience the happiness Of
behoding herself surrounded by healthy joyous
offspring. Ii is SOLEMN truth thai no female hos my
| right expect in the child which she gives birth,
whnt she docs herself possess-a sound well formed
aud robust frame She, therefore, who neRcets her
health, In the pursuit Of folly dissipation, exhnusts
the energies o her oonsiitu ion, will in the majority Of
euscs, cit er b. doomed TO be ehildes4 wife, be
cursed with short lived deformed aud puny of
,h-prihg, the baploss victims OF "A mothers folly.
Such being the importance of Health to Females. n
work which, like the present, exhibits brett exposition
of the mannorin which II oortan, To be obtain
I'D and preserved, WILL persuadcdb received by
ihem with npprobnton and claim her serious attention
Thc.trs Part is Devoted aoely to the nouns of Pre-
serving tho nenlh nnd promoting the perfect develop
the chapters devoted To Dyspepsia AMI Training for
Health, will be found full account OF the causes and
symptoms of of the most distressing and common
complaints Of the female with tho means for t pre-
ventlon an d trentnent.
Il is not, howe er, during youth merely that the o'
mne commits the Rreatest They nro often per-
sisted in after Mari ge, and, added 10 an improper
course # conuct The result IT ignorance mud prejudice.
during Pregnancy and the Lyngn jeopardiAe the
lite of hor offspring and cnni upon the mother suffering
nnd disease which often last Tor the reminder OF her
days. The Second Pun ol the work, therefore, Is nd
dressed la the MdTm Female, and embraces the Gnu
b. obs rived in oder insure tho Health OF the
Mother ind The Life OF her Child, during these two inn
tortant pc RODS.
As ths o'Iy treatment Of Infants exerts powerful
influence upon tlci' subsequent health, comfort snd
ulncss in he Third Portion Of the work we hive enter
ed fully into the proper method of Rearing Infants
| giving minute directions for their management imme
dnely after birth aud during the subsequent periods o
cliltho I'd.
Ia the Fourth Part, tho causes, symptoms and gene.
'nl treatment at he prominent Diseases Of No
delni ed with the view uf tenchng the fair
reader to be oI pysienn but 10 point out TO her
the curly ndeh If tOse affections and to show her
thu immense i'm pOrtanue of early resort TO proper
mcd icul advice II is unfortunate eireumsInn, that
for Of tins inf rmatioD such disenses often
over oolcd in the IT. hrst slages from false
de caoy concealed until hey have advanced far, that
the best directed efforts OF the most skinl practitioner
| fail in their remoy val
The Fifth Pau treats of the symptoms and manage
ment of he Diseascsf0 which Young Chadrcn od-
natig habie l. ia believed that large number. il
oil these disoaeTmoy DO prevented by proper at-
teution tn diet and regimen; when they do occur
muy, by the be very promptly aud eIectua
y removed. 1t ia Ia thesn menus therefore, Tint in
slructo especially directed avis ng always when
the administration 0t other remedies becomes in.
dsreusable resort. without delay, reg uar probes
siona aid.
Finally we have ed Of the causes
mems of prev"nion sym ptoms and treatment of the
Asiotic Epdemic Ch0iva. Although not dsense to
which the female ia particularly subec than the
other sex; it is nevertheless topic Of such general aud
uppallin interest and IA relation which the diff.
fusion of formation is of much importance,
that have been unwilling 10 omit it, and con.
,ineed that every reader will be peased with its intro
ducton