Puerperal convalescence and the diseases of the puerperal period / by Joseph Kucher.

  • Kucher, Joseph.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Puerperal convalescence and the diseases of the puerperal period / by Joseph Kucher. 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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    it can be supplemented by artificial food, given dur- ing the night. In exceptional cases this mixed food does not agree so well with the baby as artificial food throughout. Depressed nipples are often a cause of inability to nurse. If the depression is of a high degree, all pre- paratory treatment during the pregnancy is of no use. As soon as the breasts begin to swell through the influx of milk, they become as depressed as be- fore. In the slighter degrees, preparatory treatment and nipple-shields are sometimes of use. Mental excitement has often an unfavorable influence on the quantity and quality of milk, though it is unknown what changes occur in the milk. It has no other influence on the child than a.temporary slight intes- tinal disturbance. Worrying or continued anxiety often make a woman unfit for nursing, on account of the concomitant impaired digestion. CJioice of a Wet-Nurse.—It is easy to describe an ideal wet-nurse, but hard to get a good one. ]^ot- withstanding all the troubles which every wet-nurse causes, more or less, the advantages of nursing, es- pecially for weak children, during the first six months are so great that the best artificial feeding is no substitute, but a poor makeshift. The chil- dren often seem to thrive with artificial food, but they have little resistibility, and readily succumb, especially during the summer, to intestinal (dis- orders.