Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

by Pye Henry Chavasse

[186]. The Foot and its Covering. By James Dowie. London, 1861.

[187]. The Psalms of David, cxliv. 12.

[188]. How is milk, in the making of cheese, converted into curds? By rennet. What is rennet? The juice of a calf’s maw or stomach. The moment the milk enters the human maw or stomach, the juice of the stomach converts it into curds—into solid food, just as readily as when it enters a calf’s maw or stomach, and much more readily than by rennet, as the fresh juice is stronger than the stale. An ignorant mother often complains that because, when her child is sick, the milk curdles, that it is a proof that it does not agree with him! If, at those times, it did not curdle, it would, indeed, prove that his stomach was in a wretchedly weak state; she would, then, have abundant cause to be anxious.

[189]. The Times, September 19, 1864.

[190]. The Lancet, December 18, 1858.

[191]. Ibid.

[192]. Although caraway seeds whole are unwholesome, yet caraway-tea, made as recommended at page [1097], is an excellent remedy to disperse wind.

[193]. Christian’s Mistake. By the author of “John Halifax Gentlemen.”

[194]. “Pure air and water are practically the two great elements of health.”—The Times.

[195]. The Times.