An account of the weather and diseases of South Carolina / by Lionel Chalmers.

  • Lionel Chalmers
Date:
1947
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Credit: An account of the weather and diseases of South Carolina / by Lionel Chalmers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    teeth, that they may have fomewhat to truft to in cafe of ficknefs; for they will take the nipple when all other nourifhment is refufed. The above rules have been followed in my own family, and they were alfo recommended to others with luccefs, who, as well as mylelf, had loft leveral children by too early weaning and adhering to the ulual way of dieting them. And even were they ever lo ftrong and healthy, they thou Id never be weaned till the month of October, when the weather be¬ gins to be cool and bracing ; for during the re¬ laxing heat of the fummer, they are very gene¬ rally, liable to difeafes in this climate. The prepofterous manner of feeding infants with pap, and other fuch indigeftible food nau- feoufly Iweetened, is highly cenfurable at all times. But tbefe and even the breaft itfelf, ftiould be wholly abftained from in the above complaints, till the bowels are freed of the (harp humours. For as thefe all turn four, and the milk curdles immediately in the ftomach, the fymptoms will probably be continued, if not aggravated by thole means, in defiance of medicine. Certainly no man in his fenfes, would adviie that milk fbould be given even to a grown perfon, who already had ei¬ ther a cholick, vomiting, purging or fever, from an abounding acid : but, let us even grant, that, the redundant acrimony we fpeak of was removed, yet it will be generated anew, either by the milk lying too long in the ftomach, its being loured by the great heat within during a fever, or both. The diet, therefore, fnould at leaft be of a mixed kind ; as broth fometimes, and again the breaft milk, that the former may in fome degree correct the acefcenc quality of the other. But ftiil, it will be belt, not to allow even of this mixture of food, before the ftrft