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ADVICE TO A WIFE AND MOTHER. IN TWO PARTS. EMBRACING ADVICE TO A WIFE, AND ADVICE TO A MOTHER.
BY
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE.
SEVENTEENTH EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1881.
ADVICE TO A WIFE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HER OWN HEALTH, AND ON THE TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE COMPLAINTS INCIDENTAL TO PREGNANCY, LABOR, AND SUCKLING; WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER ESPECIALLY ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG WIFE.
BY
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND; FELLOW OF THE OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF QUEEN’S COLLEGE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, BIRMINGHAM; AUTHOR OF “ADVICE TO A MOTHER ON THE MANAGEMENT OF HER CHILDREN.”
“Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thine house.”
SEVENTEENTH EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1881.
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MY BIRMINGHAM PATIENTS,
MANY OF WHOM I HAVE ATTENDED FOR A PERIOD OF UPWARDS OF THIRTY YEARS; SOME OF WHOM, HAVING USHERED INTO THE WORLD, I AFTERWARD ATTENDED IN THEIR OWN CONFINEMENTS; AND FROM ALL OF WHOM I HAVE RECEIVED SO MUCH CONFIDENCE, COURTESY, AND KINDNESS,
This little Volume is Dedicated,
BY THEIR SINCERE FRIEND,
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE
Priory House, Old Square,
Birmingham.
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PREFACE.
The sale of copies of this book is now to be reckoned byits tens of thousands! The last, the Seventh Edition, comprisingfive thousand copies, has been rapidly exhausted; anew Edition, the Eighth, is now urgently called for; and asthe sale of the work is so enormous, and so extending, myworthy Publishers have deemed it advisable to publish of thisedition at once seven thousand copies,—thus making of thetwo last editions alone twelve thousand copies; the two lasteditions being, in fact, equal to twelve ordinary editions!Moreover, this book has made me troop