Lectures on obstetric nursing : delivered at the training school for nurses of the Philadelphia hospital / by Theophilus Parvin.
- Theophilus Parvin
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on obstetric nursing : delivered at the training school for nurses of the Philadelphia hospital / by Theophilus Parvin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ends being fastened round the neck, will frequently be beneficial. It would be better for the patient, preventing or lessening such excess of milk-making, to take for a day or two little fluid food, and to drink very little water. Protection of the nipples from fissures and ex- coriations may further be sought by the daily application of a little cocoa butter or other non- irritating ointment, by not allowing the infant to keep the nipple for a long time in its mouth, alter- nately sucking and sleeping, and, if the nipples become very tender, by the early use of a nij^ple shield. Catheter.—The Nelaton catheter I think the one most convenient, anct while I have adopted the common statement that the instrument should be kept in an antiseptic solution in the intervals be- tween its use, it seems to me this is a needless precaution ; if the instrument, both before and after its use, is thoroughly washed in a two per cent, solution of creolin, for example, it will be perfectly aseptic. Colostrum.—This is the name given to the fluid found in the breasts the first two or three days of the puerperal period; its chemical composition is almost the same as thataef milk, the chief difference between the two fluids being in the relative ]3ro- portions of the constituents. It acts as a laxative](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20395401_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
