ng after, I, 131;
domestic problem following first, I, 131; how to calculate date of, I, 66;
how to prepare bed for, I, 65; lacerations during, I, 116; how long woman
should stay in bed after, I, 114; position and arrangement of bed for, I,
64; preparations for, I, 61; selection of a nurse, I, 70; use of
anesthetics in, I, 112; what to provide for, I, 62.

Confinement chamber, presence of friends in, I, 113; presence of relatives
in, I, 113.

Constipation, II, 315; abuse of cathartics and aperient waters, II, 326;
always harmful, II, 321; chief cause of, II, 315; cost of, II, 317;
diseases of women and, II, 320; during pregnancy, I, 84; in bottle-fed
infants, II, 309; in breast-fed infants, II, 308; in girls between 16 and
20, II, 321; in children over two years old, II, 309; in infants and
children, II, 303; lack of bulk in food, II, 326; lack of exercise and, II,
325; lack of water, II, 325; negligence of, II, 324; pregnancy and, II,
321; significance of, II, 305; social exigencies and, II, 319; treatment
of, II, 323; treatment of obstinate, II, 311.

Consumption cure, III, 461.

Consumptives, information for and those living with, III, 421.

Contagious diseases, IV, 599; conduct and dress of nurse for, IV, 600;
convalescence after, IV, 603; rules to be observed in treatment, IV, 599;
what isolation means, IV, 600.

Contusion, or bruise, IV, 633.

Convulsions, IV, 577; treatment of child with, IV, 579.

Cord, cutting, the, I, 102; dressing the, II, 210.

Cough, treatment of, IV, 505; nervous or persistent, IV, 504.

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Cream, for constipation in infants, II, 309.

Croup, false, IV, 506; treatment of false, IV, 507; spasmodic, IV, 507;
treatment of spasmodic, IV, 507.

Deaf and dumb, I, 37.

Detention, symptoms of, II, 219; treatment of, II, 219.

Desserts, II, 273.

Diarrhoea, inflammatory, IV, 535; summer, IV, 539; symptoms of summer, IV,
540; treatment of inflammatory, IV, 537; treatment of summer, IV, 541.

Diet, of nursing mother, I, 121; of the pregnant woman, I, 77; of sick
child, II, 279; for constipated child, II, 310; older children, II, 271.

Dinner, the first after labor, I, 109.

Diphtheria, IV, 610; symptoms of, IV, 611; treatment of, IV, 613.

Disease, how we catch, III, 409; tendency to, III, 416; vice and, I, 4; of
womb, ovaries or fallopian tubes, II, 199.

Disinfecting, Clothing and linen, IV, 601; mouth