cases, the safest course is plentiful dilution, gentle evacuations, 
fomentations of the parts affected. In the ilk-fewaal the bi 
may be embrocated with a little warm linseed oil, or the bitters 
ointment ; or cabbage leaves may be applied to them. The child 
should be often put to the breast, or it should be drawn by some 
other person. 
Nothing would tend more to prevent the milk-fever than puttin: 
the child early to the breast. ‘The custom of not allowing the ehild 
to suck for the first two or three days, is contrary to Nature and com- 
mon sense, and is very hurtful both to the mother and child. Every 
mother who has milk in her breasts, ought either to suckle her own 
child, or to have her breasts frequently drawn, at least for the first 
month. This would prevent many of the diseases which prove fatal 
to women in child-bed. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BREAST.—When an inflammation happens 
in the breast, attended with redness, hardness, and other symptoms of 
suppuration, the safest and most effectual application I have ever 
used, is the ‘‘ bitter-sweet ointment,’’ mentioned among the recipes. 
This quickly softens and gives relief. If suppuration be far ad- 
vanced, poultices of bread and milk, softened with oil or fresh but- 
ter, may be applied till the tumor breaks, or is fit toopen, eee 
Cuaprep nippites.—When the nipples are fretted or chapped, 
they may be anointed with a mixture of oil and beeswax, or the " bit- 
tersweet ointment,” or a little powdered gum Arabic may be sprin- 
kled on them. Should the complaint prove obstinate, a cooling 
purge may be given, which generally removes it. sgh Pecan 
Cuitp-Bep Frever.—The most fatal. disorder consequent upon 
delivery, is the child-bed fever. It generally makes its attack on the 
second or third day after delivery. Sometimes, indeed, it comes on 
sooner, and at other times, though rarely, it does not appear before 
the fifth or sixth day. = é seh 
It begins, like most other fevers, with a cold or shivering fit, which 
is succeeded by restlessness, pain in the head; great sickness at the 
stomach, and bilious vomiting. ‘The pulse is generally quick, the — 
tongue dry, and there is a remarkable depression of the spirits and _ 
loss of strength. A great pain is usually felt in the back, hips, and 
region ef the womb ; a sudden change in the quantity or quality of 
the lochia, also takes place ; and the patient is frequently troubled. 
with a constant inclination to go to stool. The urine, which is very 
high colored, is discharged in small quantity, and generally with pain, ~ 
The belly sometimes swells to a considerable bulk, and becomes sus- 
ceptible of pain from the slightest touch. When the fever has con-— 
unued for a few days, the symptoms of the inflammation usually sub- 
side, and the disease acquires a more putrid form. . At this period, 
if not sooner, a bilious or putrid looseness, of an obstinate and dan-— 
gerous nature, comes on, and accompanies the disease throu ’ 
progress. 
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