[108]. A knuckle of veal boiled in new milk makes a light and nourishing food for a delicate lying-in woman. Milk is an admirable article of food for the lying-in room.
[109]. Letter from Edward Crossman, Esq., in British Medical Journal, Nov. 19th, 1864.
[110]. Barley-water and new milk, in equal proportions, was Dr. Gooch’s favorite beverage for a lying-in woman. “After the fifth day,” he says, “the patient should be quite well, and your visits are merely for the purpose of watching her. Women now generally wish for wine or porter. I usually mix good barley-water with milk (equal parts), making barley gruel; and, presenting this beverage, I tell them, this is your wine and your porter too; it will relieve your thirst and sinking at the stomach, and will manufacture milk better than anything else.”
[111]. Erasmus Darwin.
[112]. The Nurse: a Poem.
[113]. Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children; the ninth edition. By Pye Henry Chavasse F.R.C.S.
[114]. From an admirable paper on Health of Body and Mind, in Good Words, Jan. 1st, 1866.
[115]. Good Words, October, 1861.
[116]. Wordsworth.
[117]. Prior.