Inflammation of the breast, and milk abscess / by Thomas William Nunn.

  • Nunn, T. W. (Thomas William), 1825-1909.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Inflammation of the breast, and milk abscess / by Thomas William Nunn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tunate in this stage may be allayed with the ordinaiy effervescing saline draught, with a few drops of the spiritus aetheris nitrici to promote cutaneous action. Dr. King, who, as an accoucheur, is brought into early contact with these cases, informs me that he enforces the strictest confinement to the prone position and rest of the upper extremities that is possible, and this he considers, combined with free purgation with a mixture of Epsom salts and carbonate of magnesia, will, in the vast majority of cases, ward off the severer stages of the disorder. In respect of the propriety of putting the child to the affected breast, no invariable rule can be laid down; the degree to which the breast is distended with milk, the seat and extent of the inflammatory action, must guide in this matter. If there is excessive abun- dance of milk, there is a great probability that the advantage to be gained by relieving the breast of its load will more than counterbalance the vascular afflux towards it; but the appli- cation of the child to the nipple without such in- ducement is most decidedly injudicious. Covering the breast with cold evaporating lotions is often serviceable in this the first, D