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Various studies conducted over the past three decades have highlighted the social, political, and economic impact that women homesteaders had on the western prairie region. Their involvement on the family homestead, whether taking part in subsistence and domestic chores or as workers in the fields, was a necessary aspect of the development and success of family farming and an agriculture-based economy in Western Canada. This paper reveals details of another aspect of family labor that often fell on the shoulders of women, that is, the provision of medical care needed to ensure the health of themselves, their spouses, and their children. Given the labor-intensive nature of the frontier lifestyle, the associated physical hazards, the number of disease-susceptible children in the region, and the scarcity of medical institutions and personnel, women were often called upon by their families and neighbors to deal with outbreaks of disease, injuries, and health crises. Using survey data collected by the Saskatchewan Archives Board in 1955 to illustrate the nature of the work performed, this paper argues that women's health care labor efforts were vital to the preservation of homesteading families in the prairie region.

1 Basic ideas about molecular shape -- 1.1 Shapes of biopolymers -- 1.2 Conformational principles -- 1.3 Shapes in equilibrium -- 2 The building units -- 2.1 Pyranose (six membered) forms -- 2.2 Furanose (five membered) forms -- 2.3 Other forms -- 2.4 Conformation and configuration: isomers and derivatives -- 2.5 Sugar shapes in hydrolysis of carbohydrate chains -- 2.6 Prediction of shapes -- 2.7 Natural building units -- 3 The linkages -- 3.1 Linkage structures and patterns -- 3.2 Linkage conformation -- 3.3 Chain conformation: order versus disorder -- 4 Simple carbohydrate chains of the periodic type -- 4.1 Conformational families -- 4.2 Occurrence, properties and function of the ribbon family -- 4.3 Occurrence, properties and function of the hollow helix family -- 4.4 Loosely jointed linkages and chains -- 5 More complex carbohydrate chains -- 5.1 Periodic chains with mixed linkages -- 5.2 Interrupted chain sequences -- 5.3 Aperiodic sequences -- References.