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5. Wear no bones in your stays, and be sure not to lace 
tight. 
. Hold no society with tale-bearing women, whose chief 
delight | is in raking up the horrible. 
7. Be careful not to overstrain the body by over-reaching. 
8. Drink no more coffee nor tea than is sufficient for the 
meal. 
9. Beware of passion; never quarrel nor look upon 
unpleasant sights of any kind. 
10. Keep as many beautiful figures and pictures in your 
bedroom as possible. 
11. Take care, as thetime approaches for your confinement, 
to be provided with a good midwife and nurse, raspberry 
leaves, burnet, elder flowers, and composition powder. 
12. A skilful woman is far preferable to a man-midwife. 
Be sure the bowels are not confined. 
13. Drink freely of raspberry leaf and composition tea 
during labour. Remember that heat expands and cold 
contracts. 
14 In cases of doubtful labour, cross-birth, or extreme 
difficulty, bear in mind that no surgeon dare refuse to attend. 
15. In cases of flooding, which rarely or never happens if 
the directions given have been attended to, apply cold water 
cloths to the uterus and lower part of the abdomen, and give 
freely to drink infusion of burnet and elder flo-vers. Make a 
quart strong. intc which put a tablespoonful of composition 
powder, sweeten and give to drink till the flooding is arrested. 
Simp'y bear in mind that the biood is the great agent of life. * 
A Mrs Wotton, a skilful London midwife, told us that she 
kad succeeded in saving the patient’s life when all other 
means falied 
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* Av injection of coid vinegars has stopped severe flooding. 
