The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians.
- William Buchan
- Date:
- [between 1790 and 1799?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![C x4 ] flrong dry cough, with violent hot pains in the bread, and an exceffive longing for drink. In fuch cafes warm milk mixed with water is the bed drink that can be given, and if a bafon of warm water is held to the mouth of the child fo that it breaths in the vapours, it will be of confiderable fervice. That the meafles may be communicated by inoculation is certainly true, for feveral experiments have been tried, and in general they have been attended with the fame fuccefs as the fmall-pox; but how- ever beneficial fuch a pra&ice might be to the community, yet jt has never received proper encouragement. There is fo much depends on the proper nurfing of children, that it may be afked to whom fhould fuch an important charge be committed ? The anfivv'er is obvious, for truly nothing can be more proper than to follow' the order of divine providence, and that is, for every mother to nurfe her own child, except where there is an utter incapacity, or an evident impoffibility. By impoffibility is meant either the death of the mother, which fome- times happens, or fuch a complication of dis- orders as would occafion her death as well as that of the child were fhe to give it fuck. By incapacity is meant,, that although the mo- ther might give fuck to her child, (he would communicate fomething toit that might weaken and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2875864x_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
