United States or Liberia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Lethulier, where to my heart's content I met with his wife, a most beautifull fat woman. But all the house melancholy upon the sickness of a daughter of the house in childbed, Mr. Vaughan's lady. So all of them undressed, but however this lady a very fine woman. I had a salute of her, and after dinner some discourse the Sheriffe and I about a parcel of tallow I am buying for the office of him.
"The people poured boiling water and oil on the Prussians from the windows of the houses at .... The village is ours no, it is the enemy's, now ours again and yet once more the enemy's; but it is no longer a village, but a smoking mass of ruins of houses....One family has remained behind...an old married couple and their daughter, the latter in childbed.
"Because they were starving, Per!" said Pelle earnestly. "That does happen at times in this accursed city." Kofod stared at him and whistled. "Oh, Satan! Wife and child, and the whole lot without food what? And she in childbed. They were married, right enough, you can see that. Oh, the devil! What a honeymoon! What misery!"
Avoid excessive fatigue and mental worry; also stimulants and opiates. Plenty of good food and fresh air will do more good than drugs. CAUSES. The displacement of the womb usually is the result of too much childbearing, miscarriages, abortions, or the taking of strong medicines to bring about menstruation. It may also be the result in getting up too quickly from the childbed.
The woman looked about seventy, tall, angular, dauntless, good for another ten years of hard work. The little maid her only grandchild, she told me was just four, her father away soldiering, and the mother died in childbed, so for four years the child had known no other guardian or playmate than the old woman.
Frederic's ancestors had assumed the style of Princes of Otranto, from the death of Alfonso the Good without issue; but Manfred, his father, and grandfather, had been too powerful for the house of Vicenza to dispossess them. Frederic, a martial and amorous young Prince, had married a beautiful young lady, of whom he was enamoured, and who had died in childbed of Isabella.
The brother followed the doctor's advice, and the man cheated the curiosity of the death-seekers, and recovered. The Canadians spend a great deal of money upon their dead. An old lady told me that her nephew, a very large farmer, who had the misfortune to lose his wife in childbed, had laid out a great deal of money a little fortune she termed it on her grave-clothes.
And these were the words that Pericles spoke before the altar: "Hail, Diana! to perform thy just commands I here confess myself the Prince of Tyre, who, frighted from my country, at Pentapolis wedded the fair Thaisa. She died at sea in childbed, but brought forth a maid-child called Marina.
For a nurse for the month, and use of childbed linen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1#, 10s., 0d. For a minister to christen the child, and to the godfathers and clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . 1#, 10s., 0d. For a supper at the christening if I had five friends at it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1#, 0s., 0d.
"I am not the doctor," replied Cerizet, who now decidedly declined that role. "I am Madame Cardinal's business man. I have just advised her to have a cot-bed put up, so as to nurse her uncle night and day; though, perhaps, she will have to get a regular nurse." "I can help her," said Madame Perrache. "I nurse women in childbed." "Well, we'll see about it," said Cerizet; "I'll arrange all that.
Word Of The Day