Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

by Pye Henry Chavasse

[176]. For a rhubarb and magnesia mixture prescription, see page [1099] (note).

[177]. Let the mixture be made by a chemist.

[178]. Communicated by Sir Charles Locock to the Author.

[179]. Let this mixture, or any other medicine I may prescribe, be always made by a respectable chemist.

[180]. My friend, the late Dr. Baly, who had made dysentery his particular study, considered the combination of opium and castor oil very valuable in dysentery.

[181]. See the Treatment of Dysentery.

[182]. Tennyson.

[183]. Sir Charles Locock, in a Letter to the Author.

[184]. See Infancy—Ablution, page [1016].

[185]. The Lancet, April 25, 1857.