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; with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife.
- Q52148313
- Date:
- 1864
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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; with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![the parent is lying down ; if this habit is not insti- tuted at first, it will be difficult to adopt it afterwards. —Good habits may be taught an infant from the earliest period of his existence. 531. Another fruitful cause of a gathered breast, is, a sore-nipple. —A mother dreads putting the child to it, in consequence of the suffering it produces; she, therefore, keeps him almost entirely to the other bosom.—The result is,—the breast with the sore nipple becomes distended with milk, which being un- relieved, ends in inflammation and gathering. 532. Another, and a very frequent cause of a gathered breast, is, the fruitless attempt of an infant to procure milk, when there is very little or none secreted.—Dr. Ballard, in his valuable little work before quoted, considers this to be the principal cause of gathered breasts ; and, as the subject is of immense importance, I cannot do better than give it in his own words, more especially, as he has the merit of origina- ting, and of bringing the subject prominently before his Professional Brethren.—He says :— This (mam- mary abscess or gathered breast) is another form of disease entirely referable to the cause under conside- ration [fruitless sucking]. In the case last related, the formation of mammary abscess [gathered breast] was only just prevented by arresting any further irritation of the breast by suckling ; and since I have kept careful notes of my cases, I have observed that in all instances of abscess, there has been abundant](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21030492_0196.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
