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confinement is due; the room itself, and everything left in it, should be thoroughly cleaned and aired

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uble bed is its tendency to sag. This tendency can be obviated however by placing an ironing board under the spring from side to side, or by using shelves from a book case. This expedient will support the mattress, thereby rendering the bed firm and free from any sagging tendency. The

the sheet, and in the middle of the bed (again where the patient's hips will rest), place a draw sheet. A draw sheet is a sheet folded once, placed across the bed, and pinned tightly with large safety pins to the mattress at each side. The advantage of this sheet is, that it can be removed when

ntage of the Kelly pad is twofold; first, it ensures a clean, compact, systematic confinement; second, its use subjects the patient to the least necessary movement at a time when movement is distressing, painful, and frequently dangerous. If a Kelly pad is not used, it is desira

pad below if necessary, or the pad and newspapers if these are used,-place a clean pad

he womb out of place. The binder is certainly appreciated by most patients because of its snug, comfortable feeling; and in cases when the abdominal wall is fat and the muscles soft, it holds them together in a way that is impossible by the use of any other device. To claim that the binder p

t into half yard squares. In the center of each square place a strip, six or eight inches long, of absorbent cotton and fold the gauze lengthwise over it so as to make a pad. These can be used

e confinement. Should you pass this time you will probably go on for two additional weeks. The reason for this is that the most susceptible time for conception to occur is either during the week following menstruation or a few days before menstruation. If, therefore, you pass the above probable date wh

the 12th, to which we add nine months, which will give us, as the probable date of confinement, October 12th. S

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handy means of finding the probab

rual period in the upper row; the date immediat

n. 1st to 5th, we find January 5th and below it we n

ough to feel absolutely certain that the sickness is not coming around, is not only necessary, but is the essential and correct step to take for a number of very good reasons. If a woman for example has not had a baby, how does she know she can have one? It is quite possible to become pregnant and yet it may be wholly impossible to give birth to a child. It is necessary to be constructed normally, or as near what is regarded as normal as is possible, in order safely to assume the responsibility of carrying a pregnancy to a successful completion. No one but a physician, who is skilled and familiar in the knowledge of what constitutes the proper size, and shape, and quality, and relations, one with another, of your bones, and ligaments, and muscles, can tell whether you can safely be permitted to carry a pregnancy to term or not. If the anatomical conditions are not just

st to admit that every physician is capable of successfully conducting maternity cases, there are certain characteristic

nd just what they imply. The physician who has the reputation of having the largest practice is not necessarily the man you want, nor does it imply that he is the best fitted to conduct your case to your satisfaction. The fact that he is a very busy man may be distinctly detrimental to your best interests. If the physician has the reputation of being an excellent doct

a maternity, or monthly, nurse. The choice may be dictated by the financial means of the patient.

be afforded, for the reason that she has been trained to obey absolutely the orders of a physician, and because she has the requisite knowle

onsible for much injury to the mother and child. Despite these objections we have worked with many of these nurses who were to be preferred to trained nurses. It is the individual after all that counts, and if a maternity nurse, though technically untrained, is adaptable, tactful, and will consent to be instructed to the extent of obeying without argument, she can become invaluable, and her skill and experience will carry her creditably over many trying incidents. The objection of the medical profession to an untrained nurse is based, not so much on her lack of ability, as upon her propensity to indiscriminate and indiscreet talk,-they have not been trained to know the value of professional silence, nor have they had the necessary education which would have enabled them to acquire through their experience the knowledge that "silence is golden" at all times. A trained nurse possesses the requisite knowledge, but m

in habits and dress, and she should be tactful, obliging, and she should attend to her own affairs strictly. She should not be a gossip; she should n

mfortable bed, sufficient sleep, good food, and exercise in the open air every day. These are esse

personally a capable nurse, there is no objection to selecting her, and no physi

ws to be personally objectionable, or professionally incapable. Every physician acquires certain individual methods in the conduct of maternity cases, which experience has taught him to be successful. A

any community who are maligned and abused so much as are physicians. They seem to be the choice victims of the enmity and spite of every malicious feminine tongue. A woman should think twice before she utters a criticism regarding the work of a physician. She would, if she but knew how quickly she brands and advertises herself as irresponsible and lacking in ordinary courtesy and good breeding, as she is not qualified to criticise the professional capability of a physician, nor is she qualified to estimate the extent of the wr