Special hygienic and medical information for parents . der at once the treatment. Do not apply the child to the nipple, entrustit to a wet nurse. Carpenter says: The 104 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. reiterated application of the child to the breastis the most common cause. The repeated at-tempts at nursing remove the sebaceous se-cretion, so that the skin contracts and finallycracks. Application of a little cream, olive oil orglycerine is many times all that is Druit recommends a solution of five grainsof tannin in an ounce of distilled water. If awet nurse cannot be secured for the child
Special hygienic and medical information for parents . der at once the treatment. Do not apply the child to the nipple, entrustit to a wet nurse. Carpenter says: The 104 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. reiterated application of the child to the breastis the most common cause. The repeated at-tempts at nursing remove the sebaceous se-cretion, so that the skin contracts and finallycracks. Application of a little cream, olive oil orglycerine is many times all that is Druit recommends a solution of five grainsof tannin in an ounce of distilled water. If awet nurse cannot be secured for the child, nip-ple shields must be used. The secret of cure is to have something inter-vene between the childs mouth and the the nipple in some mild astringentsolution during the last stages of gestation, willso harden the cuticle that, in nursing, this afflic-tion will scarcely ever be met with. There aremany more diseases peculiar to pregnancy andthe result of parturition, that will be consideredwhen treating exclusively on diseases of CHAPTER VIII. STERILITY. IF a woman cannot conceive, she is barren,sterile; and many ladies at the present, as inbible times, consider it a reproach to theirwomanhood to be sterile. Sarah was so anxiousthat a child should be born to Abraham that shesacrificed her highest womanhood, by granting toHagar the privilege of wifehood, and an Ishmaelwas the result; but God blessed her in her oldage, and Isaac was born. From what we havesaid in regard to the philosophy of conception,the various causes of sterility can be easily pre-sented to the popular mind, and these causes wewill put in two divisions : first, those that can beremoved ; second, those that can not. REMOVABLE CAUSES. Leucorrhcea, in American ladies, is a verycommon cause, for this reason, the leucorrhcealsecretion is many times so acrid, excoriatingand caustic that it destroys the vitality of themale sperms, so that they cannot work them- io6 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. selves up
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