Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labor, and suckling.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1871
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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, labor, and suckling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    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 [breast], 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 the nipple Of my dug, and felt it bitter, pretty fool! To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug.* 721. 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 shil- ling in the middle of each to admit the nipple, and with a slit from the center to the circumference of each plas- ter to make a better fit. These plasters ought to be spread by a chemist. 722. When the child is once weaned, the breasts ought 770/ to be drawn, as the drawing of them would cause them to secrete larger quantities of milk ; if, there- fore, the bosoms be ever so full or uncomfortable, a mother ought to leave them alone; she should wait patiently, and the milk will gradually diminish, and will at length disappear. 123. The drawing of the bosoms, during weaning, either by means of a breast-pump, or by the mouth, or by other like contrivances, has frequently caused gathered breasts. If not drawn, they scarcely, if ever, gather. * Romeo and Juliet.