Lectures to women on anatomy and physiology : with an appendix on water cure / by Mary S. Gove.
- Mary Nichols
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures to women on anatomy and physiology : with an appendix on water cure / by Mary S. Gove. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![cate lining membrane of the infant stomach, which is far more delicate and susceptible than its exter- nal skin, bear the stimuli of spice, pepper, flesh, &c, mingled in that very injurious compound minced pie, without injury, when it would pro- duce a sore if applied to the external skin ] Yet how many mothers give their children minced pie, and bring forward the plea that such food will not hurt children, if they are only used with eating it. I have seen a mother feed her child, whose age was four months, with pork, hog's fat, and potatoes, when the little sufferer had hooping- cough. It was agonizing to witness the convulsive throes of the poor child as the outraged stomach rejected with loathing and abhorrence the deadly and unnatural ingesta. I would that I were not under the necessity of sullying my pages with a notice of the abuses of civic life. The necessity that these errors should be brought to view and corrected must constitute my excuse for bringing subjects befox*e my read- ers disagreeable to them and to me. The child above-mentioned, after being fed in such an im- proper manner, was enveloped in blankets, the head as closely as the body. At the first stopping- place, when allowed again to breathe the pure air, the child's face was discovered to be a deep pur- ple, as if it were in the last stage of strangulation. The mother, though as sensible and accomplished as most women, owing to the lamentable want of physiological infoi-mation at this day, had no idea that impure air caused the deathly appearance of her child. She had covered it from the air to pre- vent its taking cold. In view of such abuses, it is cheering to reflect that light is beginning to break in upon us. Many see that they have been steeped in error to the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143857_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
