274 DB. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



or bruise with a hammer, and put into the jug or bottle with the spirits and 

 cider, (or water, if no good cider can be had, but the cider is much the best), 

 and shake daily for 10 days; take out the dregs, either filter, or strain and presa 

 out, as you choose, and take a wine-glass of it immediately after each meal. 

 The dregs steeped in 1 qt. of water will yield considerable more strength, 

 which may be added to the tonic bitters when strained off. 



Remarks. — I have made this for my wife several times, and I did not fail 

 to help her dispose of it occasionally myself. Her remark has often been: 

 "Oh! what an appetite it gives me," etc. It is a very valuable tonic, and, 

 from the spices, very pleasant to take. 



8. Sore Nipples, Bemedy.— A mixture of honey, borax, alum and 

 strong sage tea. — Mrs. Mary Blake, of Parsons, Kan., in Blade. Knowing a 

 similar mixture to be valuable as a gargle for sore throat, I believe it will be 

 equally valuable for sore nipples. About J^ tea-spoonful each of powdered 

 borax and alum, and 1 tea-spoonful of strained honey to 1 cup of strong sage 

 tea. 



For a Gargle. — A heaping tea-spoonful, each, of the powder, and 2 tea- 

 spoonfuls of honey Lo 3^ pt. of the strong sage tea, will be sufficient, and be 

 found excellent; and for the gargle it would be all the better, if 1 to 2 cayenne 

 peppers (such as pepper sauce is made of), or small red pepper, was steeped with 

 the sage in.i^iaking the tea. Children, however, cannot tolerate the pepper; 

 then, for ctildren, leave them out. Gargle at least 6 times a day, and for the 

 nipples, wash off the saliva, and apply afte. each time of nursing. (See also 

 the following, and " Sore Nipples, Breasts, etc., to Avoid and to Cure," below.) 



4. Sore Nipples, Efficient Remedy.— A medical writer informs 

 Hs that nitrate of lead, 10 grs., in 1 oz. of glycerine, or brandy, applied after 

 each nursing, and washed off before each nursing, is an efficient (certain) 

 remedy. 



Remarks. — As he leaves it optional to use one or the other, the author 

 would say use J^ oz. each of brandy and glycerine, to the 10 grs. of nitrate of 

 lead. 



5. Milk, Suppression of, While Nursing— Treatment to 

 S-estore. — I, As this difficulty quite frequently occurs with nursing mothers, 

 and is also sometimes slow in its first secretions after child-birth, I will give an 

 item from the L' Union MSdicale, a French publication, which will prove valu- 

 able when needed. It says: 



''When the milk secretion is slow in appearing, in a lying-in-woman 

 (woman in confinement, or child-bearing), or when it ceases from mental or 

 moral causes (not from inflammation of the breasts or other actual disease), It 

 inay be made to return by cataplasms (poultices), or fomentation of castor 

 leaves applied to the breast, or by suction of the nipple, or by means of elec- 

 tricity. The mammary gland (the breast), is to be slightly compressed between 

 two sponge electrodes (also known as the poles of a battery), and a feeble cur- 

 rent passed through the gland for 10 or 15 minutes twice a day, after the first 

 few electrizations, the breasts become full, the large veins appear on the gland, 

 jmd the milk secretion is set up. 



