234 CULPEPER? & ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
the pelvis at this.time..... The medicine always found to fuceeed belt in this. difeate ig: 
the Lunar Tin¢ture. This, if frequently repeated, will often put a {top to the v vo- 
miting,,and at the fame time. leffen.the violence of the fever. If it runs off by itool, 
or if the patient be reftlefs, a few drops of laudanum, or fome fyrup of poppies, may 
occafionally be added... To avoid this fever, every woman in child-bed ought to be- 
kept perfectly eafy; her food fhould be light and fimple, and her bed-chamber cool, 
and properly ventilated. ‘There is not any thing more hurtful to a woman in this. 
fituation than being kept too warm. She ought not to have her body.bound too tight, 
nor to rife. too foon.from bed, after delivery ; catching cold is.alfo to be avoided ;. 
anda proper attention fhould be paid‘ to cleanlinefs. To prevent the milk-fever, 
the breafts ought to be frequently drawn ; and, if they are full previous to the on- 
fet of a fever, they fhould, upon its firft appearance, be drawn, to prevent the milk 
from » becoming acrid, and its being abforbed in this ftate. 
_, DISEASES. or INFANTS, 
oERis is:proper; immediately after children are born, to fearch narrowly whether they. 
- have received any injury, either in the womb or in the delivery itfelf. Bruifes j in: 
_ the head, or/elfewhere, occafioned by the rough treatment of the midwife ; and: 
fwellings,occafioned, by a preffure. againft the internal orifice, may be cured or dif- 
cuffed by tite following mixture: take camphorated fpirit of wine. and oil of fweet. 
"almonds, of each two drachms; compound fpirit of lavender, half a drachm: mix; 
Let the injured part be frequently anointed therewith. It may alfo be now and then 
fomented ‘with watm milk. But, if the fwelling tends to fappuration, i it ought to be 
immediately forwarded with mucilage plaifter, diachylon with gum, or a poultice of 
breadand milk. And after.the difcharge of matter; ufe Arceus’ s liniment, warm, 
and mixed with a little Peruvian parses for the dtefiings; spagring. them with a 
imple diachylon plaifter. : 7 2, 
- Phe gripes in: children fometimes prove fo violent, as to Bib hea’ into univer- 3 
‘fal convulfions, or to caufe what is called a convylfion.of the bowels, ‘When the- 
ee fur partes to caufe this diforder, it is ufual to-boil carraway-feeds and laurel- 
caves along. ) mix. little wine or brandy. If the me- 
otal bt been duly purged away, ‘five grains of rhubarb_ fhould be given. 
_ twice aewee Koti the bowels are evacuated; or a little oil of. fweet almonds, and: _ 
fyrup of violets, where-the infant is weak... When the taking i in too much milk is. 
fafpected to be: the caufe, let it be debarred the breaft a fhort time, and in the mean. 
— while exhibit, the following: mixture : take. fyrup of peach blofioms and rhubarb, : 
: = of each half an ounces of annifeed, two-drops: mix, Let a fmall ipoonful of this 
’ Ke | given occaftonally; SiS Mestrenntarni bg; “When the. = surdling of the milk: 
ssc cafes. 
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