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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    enough for him ; and one or two aloe-applications to the nipple will make him take a disgust to the bosom ; and thus the weaning will be accomplished. A mother need not be afraid that the aloes will injure her babe; the minute quantity he will swallow will do no harm ; for the moment he tastes it, the aloes being extremely bitter, he will splutter it out of his mouth. 923. Another application for the nipple to efiFect weaning is wormwood. There are two ways of apply- ing it, either (1) by sprinkling a very small pinch of powdered wormwood on the nipple; or (2) by bathing the nipple with a small quantity of wormwood tea just before applying the babe to it—either the one or the other of these plans will make him take a dislike to the breast, and thus the weaning will be accompUshed. Wormwood is excessively bitter and disagreeable, and a slight quantity of it on the nipple will cause an infant to turn away from it with loathing and disgust—the wormwood, the minute quantity he will taste, will not at all injure him. Wormwood was in olden time used for the purpose of weaning:— And she was wean'd,—I never shall forget it— Of all the days of the year upon that day : For I had then laid wormwood to my dug [nipple], Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall, My lord and you were then at Mantua:— Nay, I do bear a brain : but, as I said, When it did taste the wormwood on tlie nipple Of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretty fool! To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug. Shakspcare. 924. The best way of drying up the milk is to apply to each breast soap-plaster {emplastrum saponis), spread on soft pieces of wash leather, the shape and size of the top of a hat, with a round hole the size of a shilling in the middle of each to admit the nipple, and with a slit from the centre to the circumference of each plaster to make a better fit. These plasters ought to be spread by a chemist.