The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro.

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    posture is absolutely necessary during the first three or four days at least. About this time the mother will be able to rest on her elbow when the child takes the breast, or when she takes her food, and can have an additional pillow, if necessary, under the head and shoulders. It will take some time before the genera- tive organs have returned to their natural size and position, and it is highly important that the mother should rest until this change is pretty fairly com- pleted. She should remember that prevention is better than cure, and therefore she ought to take all necessary precautions to preserve her health, strength, and future usefulness. The mother ought not to leave her bed sooner than when to leave lying- the eighth or tenth day, and the nurse should not en- ^° courage her to do so sooner, fancying that such might hasten her recovery. When she leaves her bed, it must be for an hour or so on one prepared close by, so that she is not to stand on her feet in the erect position, but raised from the one to the other. Usually an easy chair, so formed that it may answer for a bed or sofa, is brought alongside the bed for this purpose. She may rise an hour or two daily, and afterwards an hour or two twice daily, and so on. About the end R