Advice to a wife and mother in two parts : embracing Advice to a wife and Advice to a mother / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1881
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Credit: Advice to a wife and mother in two parts : embracing Advice to a wife and Advice to a mother / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    porridge; lentil powder, in the form of Du Barry's Ara- bica Revalenta; vegetables of all kinds, especially spinach ; exercise in the open air; early rising ; daily visiting the water-closet at a certain hour—there is nothing keeps the bowels open so regularly and well as establishing the habit of visiting the water-closet at a certain hour every morning; and the other rules of health specified in these Conversations. If more at- tention were paid to these points, poor school-boys and school-girls would not be compelled to swallow such nauseous and disgusting messes as they usually are Should these plans not succeed (although in the ma jority of cases, with patience and perseverance, they will), I would advise an enema once or twice a week, either simply of warm water, or of one made of gruel, table salt, and olive oil, in the proportion of two table- spoonfuls of salt, two of oil, and a pint of warm gruel, which a boy may administer to himself, or a girl to her- self, by means of a proper enema apparatus. Hydropathy is oftentimes very serviceable in pre- venting and in curing costiveness; and as it will sometimes prevent the necessity of administering med- icine, it is both a boon and a blessing. Hydropathy also supplies us with various remedies for constipation. From the simple glass of cold water, taken early in the morning, to the various douches and sea-baths, a long list of useful appliances might be made out, among which we may mention the 'wet compresses' worn for three hours over the abdomen [bowels], with a gutta percha covering.* * Professor Trousseau in Medical Circular, Feb. 5, 1862.