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The diseases of children and their remedies / by the late Nicholas Rosen von Rosenstein ... ; Tanslated [sic] into English by Andrew Sparrman, M. D.

  • Nils Rosén von Rosenstein
Date:
1776
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Credit: The diseases of children and their remedies / by the late Nicholas Rosen von Rosenstein ... ; Tanslated [sic] into English by Andrew Sparrman, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fhould be diluted with barley-water, provided the child has any flight fever. If the child is difpofed to obftipations, mix the milk with a little thin oatmeal- gruel filtrated, in which diffoive a little clarified ho- ney; meal pap is never to be given to any child, it is too gluey, tenacious, and flimy a food, and caufes ach, acidities, wind, and many other. indifpofitions, by which means we lofe at leaft the one half of our children. Mr. Mauriceau’s 263d obfervation, and that of Dr, Zimmerman at. Zurich, proves this fufh- ciently *. When the children are half a year old, we may begin to give them unboiled milk, in which we have mixed a little rye-bifcuit, which is tender — and well fermented, being previoufly foaked in warm love, becaufe the child will faffer by that: the milk by this means, will be fpoiled and grow falt; there- fore a married nurfe ought at that time to have no connections with her hufband. If we difcover in. a nurfe: and the fame is to be obferved, if fhe is big ‘with child. : . Exercife is indifpenfably neceflary to a nurfe, if-we with her to thrive well, and that in her body fhall be prepared a milk which is not. too thick, or which too eafily grows acid: for that purpofe, it is necef- jary to order the nurfe to take fome exercife, or to put her to fome work ; forinftance, to let her grind wheat in a iteel mill, or fome fuch other thing, which will bring on a gentle fweat. ‘The time for exercife ought not to be immediately after taking the | food, but fome time before fhe is going to eat. [f the child is very uneafy, fo that the nurfe is pre- vented from her fuficient and neceflary fleep, fhe will then grow feverifh, her breafts dry up, the milk will turn yellow and bad; therefore a dry nurfe muft be called to her ailiftance, in order that fhe may fleep 8 hours out of four-and-twenty. She ought to know * See alfo his fine treatife Von der Erfarung, u1. p. 264, where this neceflary obfervation is treated more at large, Ey 25 3) 4 | ® how
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