A guide to mothers and nurses, in the treatment and management of infants and young children, with recommendations for the prevention and cure of many of their complaints and diseases / [Henry Jenner].

  • Jenner, Henry, 1766?-1851.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A guide to mothers and nurses, in the treatment and management of infants and young children, with recommendations for the prevention and cure of many of their complaints and diseases / [Henry Jenner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this often affords a harbour for vermin, or corrodes and occasions a soreness and discharge under it, and prevents the pro- per growth of the hair; it may easily and very soon be removed, by rubbing over it a little fresh butter daily, and then wiping it off with a coarse towel, assisted - sometimes by the comb. Many parents, on account of the sub- sequent disagreeable smell of sulphur, when their children have been affected with the itch, have been induced to adopt the use of various other applica- tions to effect their cure, which besides their baneful tendency have not the cer- tainty of effecting it. The most speedy, safest, and best remedy, will be, rubbing an ointment over the parts affected with any eruptions, composed of the flour of sulphur mixed with a sufficient quantity of lard to form such ointment, to which nay be added a few drops of essence of
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