Chavasse's advice to a mother : on the management of her children and on the treatment on the moment of some of their more pressing illnesses and accidents / by George Carpenter.

  • Q52148313
Date:
[1898?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chavasse's advice to a mother : on the management of her children and on the treatment on the moment of some of their more pressing illnesses and accidents / by George Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reliable. “ Tamar Indian ” lozenges and Cascara choco- late bonbons can also be taken. Prescription XXII. ©f Appendix for a pill, where an aperient is absolutely necessary, is a mild, gentle, and effective one for the purpose. - But, after all, the best opening medicines are—cold ablutions every morning of the whole body ; attention to diet; variety of food; bran-bread; grapes; stewed prunes; French plums; Muscatel raisins; figs; fruit, both cooked and raw—if it be ripe and sound ; oatmeal porridge; lentil powder ; vegetables of all kinds, especially spinach; exercise in the open air; early rising; daily visiting the water-closet at a certain hour—there is nothing keeps the bowels open so regularly and well as establishing the habit of visiting the water-closet at a certain hour every morning; and the other rules of health specified in these Conversations. If more attention were paid to these points, poor school-boys and school-girls would not be compelled to swallow such nauseous and disgusting messes as they usually do to their aversion and injury. Should these plans not succeed (although in the majority of cases, with patience and perseverance, they will), I would advise an enema once or twice a week, simply of warm water; or of one made of gruel, table- salt, and olive-oil, in the proportion of two table- spoonfuls of salt, two of oil, and a pint of warm gruel, which a boy may administer to himself, or a girl to her- self, by means of a proper enema apparatus. Hydropathy is oftentimes very serviceable in preventing and in curing costiveness ; and as it will sometimes pre- vent the necessity of administering medicine, it is both a boon and a blessing. “ Hydropathy also supplies us with various remedies for constipation. From the simple glass of cold water, taken early in the morning, to the various douches and sea-baths, a long list of useful appliances might be made out, among which we may mention the ‘ wet compress ’ worn for three hours over the abdomen [bowels], with a gutta percha covering.”