A treatise on the stomach and its trials / by J.C. Eno.

  • Eno, J. C.
Date:
[1870?]
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Credit: A treatise on the stomach and its trials / by J.C. Eno. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plete weaning cannot be carried out, let it at least be partial. Inatten¬ tion to the above often sows the seeds of tubercular deposit, and we have seen many a mother snatched away by the same inattention, or the want of this knowledge. Use broiled fat bacon for breakfast, and a light-boiled or raw egg when obtainable; take as much cream in tea as possible, half cream if you can; when good milk cannot be had, use ‘ condensed milk,’ which can now be had from almost any chemist or grocer; it will be found to be a good substitute for the fresh milk. We cannot say too much in favour of an oleaginous diet. Where any kind of food disagrees, or, to insure the digestion of any food, use the Digestive Granules. Expose the body to as much sunshine as possible. Never sit down with damp clothes on, but walk briskly until you can change. Never make a clothes-horse of yourself by standing be¬ fore the fire in your wet clothes. If you do, death may be the result of your incaution. Should a cold be contracted, use warm sponging and free rubbing night and morning, more especially between the shoulders and chest; if you can make the chest the colour of a boiled lobster, do so. Have a fire in your bedroom. Put a bottle of hot water, wrapped in flannel, to the feet, in bed. To relieve the cough, use the lemon-juice mixture, as given on page 49, with a dose of the cough elixir at bedtime, or during the day if necessary. If there is any tightness or soreness of the chest or between the shoulders, apply croton-oil liniment night and morning until an eruption appears. After the eruption has gone, the chest must be kept red for some time after the cold has disappeared, by rubbing with towel or hair gloves, as in many instances it takes months before the lung membrane recovers its normal tone. In all cases after the feverish symptoms of the cold have subsided, take a few glasses of sound port wine daily, and the quinine mixture, given in the chapter on Nervousness and Debility.* In all cases where the bowels are confined, consult page 75. In most cases, where the cough does not soon leave the patient, much benefit will be derived from change of air. Avoid night air until the chest has resumed its healthy vigour. At any time when there is too free perspiration, use the quinine and dilute phosphoric acid, two or three grains of quinine and ten to twenty drops of the acid, in a wineglassful of water. It may be asked, how is it that some persons live to a good old age, with compara¬ tive good health, who have disregarded such rules as we have laid down? The answer is, such persons have had a good banking account to com¬ mence with, that is, they were blest with strong vital powers; and probably, in many such cases, a great deal of their time was spent in the open air. How long would they have lived had they attended to such rules ! * It is impossible to lay too much stress on the advantage of the Quinine Mixture in strengthening the membrane, and effectually removing the cough.