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 and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Q52148313
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[1877]
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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 and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have usually well-formed nipples, wliich is one import- ant reason why poor women generally make good nurses, and why the poor women are those selected by the rich as wet-nurses to rescue their children from death. 886. I do not mean to say that pressure is the only cause why many of the rich have no nipple—certainly not; simple living, occupation, and exercise have much to do in developing and in perfecting the poor woman's nipple; while luxurious living, indolence, in addition to the pressure, have much to do in deteriorating and in dwindling away the fashionable lady's nipple. I will maintain, then, that freedom from pressure and simple living, conjoined with occupation and exercise, are the main causes of determining the matter. 887. The effects of tight lacing, in so frequently both arresting the development of the bosom and in causing no nipple in girls, are often so terrible in their ultimate consequences as to proclaim tight lacing to be one of the crying evils of the day, and should open the eyes of a mothe'. to its enormity. 888. Verily the rich have to pay heavy pains and penalties for their fashion, their luxury, their indolence, and their folly. 889. The fruitless attempt of an infant to procure milk when there is very little or none secreted, is another and a frequent cause of a gathered bosom. Dr Ballard, in his valuable little work before quoted, con- siders this to be the principal cause of a gathered breast; 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 originating and of bringing the subject prominently before his professional brethren. He says :— This (mammary abscess or gathered breast) is another form of disease entirely referable to the cause under consideration [fruitless sucking]. In the case * For further observations on no nipple, see one of my other works—(7oiwiseZ to a Mother on the Care and the Bearing of her Children.