Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in-room; with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects and hints upon nursing . composed of one ounce and a half of soapliniment and three drachms of laudanum, and after-wards each breast completely enveloped in a large andwell-applied waim bread-and-water poultice. Andlast of all, the breasts must be supported by a largesilk handkerchief passed under each, and then tiedover the neck, so as entirely to prevent their hangingby theii own weight. After the above measures have been
Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in-room; with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects and hints upon nursing . composed of one ounce and a half of soapliniment and three drachms of laudanum, and after-wards each breast completely enveloped in a large andwell-applied waim bread-and-water poultice. Andlast of all, the breasts must be supported by a largesilk handkerchief passed under each, and then tiedover the neck, so as entirely to prevent their hangingby theii own weight. After the above measures have been pursued per-sevcringly for six-and-thirty hours—and the principalpoints to which the attention of the mother should bq MILK ABSCESS, OR BAD BUEAST. 213 directed are, the regular fomentation of the breasts,the gentle friction with the liniment, the applicationof the warm large poultices, well-made, not so dry thatthey will irritate, and not so moist that they will makeher wet and miserable, and, last of all, though notleast, the well-applied support—after these means havebeen efficiently employed for six-and-thirty or eight-and-forty hours, the breasts will begin to mend, great Fig. relief will be experienced after the application of thepoultices, and, when taken off, that part which wasnext the nipple will be found saturated with tliis time they must be drawn regularly by theattendant, or by means of a pump. The little diagramrepresents an exceedingly convenient form of breast-glass, either for self-use or otherwise, as most con-venient.* By it the breast can be relieved at a time The Editor takes this opportunity of thanking Mr. CharlesMaw, of the well-known firm of Maw, Son, and Thompson, i ^- 214 OF THE BREASTS. the infant would be too weak to effect this, evenif it were wise to allow it to try. The extreme swellingand tension having somewhat subsided, the child willbe able to grasp the nipple and draw the milk, and,if regularly applied, prevent any i
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