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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Licence: In copyright

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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    smear a little of it on the nipple every time just before putting him to the breast; this will be quite enough for him; and one or two aloes-applica- tions to the nipple will make him take a disgust to the bosom; and thus the weaning will be ac- complished. A mother need not be afraid that the! aloes will injure her babe; the minute quantity he, •will swallow will do no harm; for the moment he tastes 'it, the aloes being extremely bitter, he will splutter it out of his mouth. Another application for the nipple to effect weaning is wormwood. There are two ways of applying it, either (i) by sprinkling a very small pinch of powdered wormwood on the nipple; or (2) by bathing the nipple with1 a small quantity of wormwood tea just before applying the babe to it— either the one or the other of these plans will make him take a dislike to the breast, and thus the weaning will be accomplished. Wormwood is excessively bitter and disagreeable, and a slight quantity of it on the nipple will cause an infant to turn away from it in loathing and disgust—the •wormwood, the minute quantity he will taste, will not at all injure him. Wormwood was in olden time used for the purpose of weaning— “ And she was weaned,—I never shall forget it— Of all the days of the year upon that day : For I had then laid wormwood to my dug [nipple], fitting in the sun under the dove-house wall.