Chavasse's advice to a wife : on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling.

  • Q52148313
Date:
[1914?]
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Credit: Chavasse's advice to a wife : on the management of her own health and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour, and suckling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When a ]ady who is nursing is habitually cos- tivie, she ought to eat brown instead of white bread. This will, in the majority of cases, en- able her to do without an aperient. The brown bread may be made with flour finely ground all one way; or by mixing one part of bran and three parts of fine wheaten flour together, and then making it in the usual way into bread. Treacle, instead of butter, on the brown bread increases its efficacy as an aperient; and raw should be substituted for lump sugar in her tea. -Stewed prunes, or stewed French plums, ..or stewed Normandy pippins, are excellent remedies to prevent constipation. The patient ought to eat, every morning, a dozen or fifteen of them. The best way to stew either prunes or French plums, is the following:—Put a pound either of prunes, or of French plums, and two table-spoonsful of raw sugar, into a brown jar; cover them with water; put them into a slow oven, and stew them for three or four hours. Both stewed rhubarb and stewed pears often act as mild and gentle aperi- ents, Muscatel raisins, eaten at dessert, will often- times, without medicine, relieve the bowels. A Bee-master in The Times, or, as he is usually called, The Times Bee-master, has satisfactorily proved that honey—pure honey—is most welcome and beneficial to the human economy. He re- commends- it to be occasionally eaten in lieu of