Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-11-26
From the american Farmer.
TO PREVENT THE FEMALE BREAST
FROM GATHERING.

TO PREVENT THE FEMALE BREAST
FROM GATHERING.
Communicated by Mother.
SIR-You are husband and father,
and greatly mistake your character, if
it would not give you particular satisfac-
ton. 10 communicate in the Farmer, any
means of mitigating the suferings which
mothers experience, in endeavoring to
give 10 their infants from their ovn
breasts, their most congeniaI and health
tul sustenance.-There is perhaps in the
catalogues of human pains, none more
acute than those which are experienced
from the gathering of tie female breast,
in time OF giving suck-pains which too
often drive the devoted mother, with
heartfelt reluctance, to consign to a
strange bosom, the beloved offspring Of
her dearest affections, therein relin-
gushing the most interesting of all her
maternal cares and duties, and losing the
effect OF the most endearing associations,
provided by nature, between mother and
child. But the faithful wife and tender
mother, only can understand, for Shea
lone can feel the nameless pleasure of
lmparting TO her child in hopeless infan-
Icy its chief pleasure, its only nourish-
ment.
| None else therefore can estimate the
prlvation. 1t is for them and their ben
etit seed you remedy which know
by experience TO be effectual.
10 prevent the female brcost from gather
ing, or to cure them zOhen they hare
| gathered.
To the yellow of one egg, add one
table spoonful of brown sugar, one Of
honey, and one of rum. small tea
spoonful Of powdered alum, and as much
OF rosln ; this mixture should be put in
to pewter vessel, and mixed well to-
gether, then put over slow fire, and
stirred all the time with the fingers I'M
til it comes to Conscience that will
spread easily.t
| Aplaster otthis spread over the breast
before the child is put to them, will pre-
vent their gathering, or should a fever
at any time fall in them, plaster of this
salve should Immediately be applied, and
it will certainly prevent gathering
Ishouid matter be formed before the APP
plication Of the saIve, the breast should
be kept covered with a thick brown pa
per made wet with rum, and the salve
over the diseased part only; when il
breaks, there should be a tent kept in
| it, and the salve spread on lint, the saIve
side next the uIcer-the child should be
taken from the breast as soon as matter
) is discovered, which may be done with.
out the least danger of losing the use Of
the breast, (Which is too often the case
| by the skin cleaving to the bones, l-af
ter the cure is made the child may be
lallowed to suck, the milk will soon re.
! turn.
sit must never be made too hot tc
bear your finger in.
| On lint in order to keep the salve
lalive.
Spontaneous combustion ofthe human body
4 The August number of the Londor
Medical Journal, contains detailed cas-,
Of the spontaneous combustion of The hu
man body, in the person of Sieur Vatin
: brewer, who had for sometime indulg
ed to great excess in the use ofspiritou
liquors. The flesh on the back, and boil
sides of the head, was destroyed; the
left side and PARTIES Of the chest, anC
, the whole upper extremities were con
; sumed and the ribs and arms reduce,
to cinder or coal. II was with grea
difficulty, and not till much water hat
been used, that the fire was sxtinguish
ed. Some have yeniured 10 doubt III,
!, spontaneous combustion Of the Twin,
!, body but we have on record man,
: well authenticated instances and tn,