se a large wad of absorbent
cotton at the sides, under the arms, to support the breasts, and another
wad between the breasts. This renders the binding more effective; permits
the binder to be put on tighter; and prevents it from cutting into the
skin. When weaning has to be done quickly the patient should absolutely
abstain from all liquids. A large dose of any saline, Pluto, Apenta, or
Hunyadi Water, or Rochelle salts, or Magnesium Citrate, should be given
every morning for four or five days. [Page 126]

If the weaning is gradually undertaken the child should be allowed to nurse
less frequently. One less nursing every second day until two nursings daily
are given. Keep the two daily nursings up for one week and then discontinue
them, after which the above measures may be adopted. To dry the milk up,
the breasts may be anointed with the following mixture: Ext. Belladonna, 2
drams; Glycerine, 2 ounces; Oil of Wintergreen, 10 drops.

NERVOUS NURSING MOTHERS.--Nervousness, considered not as the product of a
diseased condition, but as a temperamental quality, is an unfortunate
affliction in some nursing mothers. Let us illustrate just how this
characteristic is detrimental to the helpless baby. A mother was instructed
to give her baby a half teaspoonful of medicine one-half hour after each
feeding. She was told how to give it, and how to hold the baby when giving
it. She was also told that the baby would not like it, and would try to
eject it from its mouth rather than swallow it, and that when it did
swallow it, it would make a little choking noise in its throat, but not to
mind these, to go ahead and give it, as the baby could not strangle or
choke. It was essential to give the baby this medicine, and hence the
physician explicitly instructed her in these details. What was the result?
On the following day when the physician called, and found the baby much
worse, the mother said: "Oh, doctor! I couldn't give the medicine, the baby
wouldn't take it, she nearly strangled to death when I tried to give it."
The physician asked for the medicine and placing the baby over his knee,
gave it without the slightest trouble, much to the mother's amazement. The
servant girl who was a hard-headed, cool, Scotch girl, was instructed and
shown how to give the medicine, which she did successfully. The mother was
temperamentally nervous, was easily excited and became helpless the moment
the baby objected, though she was a strong, robust, heal