Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

by Pye Henry Chavasse

[254]. Household Verses on Health and Happiness. London: Jarrold & Sons. A most delightful little volume.

[255]. Which fine-tooth comb ought not to be used at any other time except for the purpose of examination, as the constant use of a fine-tooth comb would scratch the scalp, and would encourage a quantity of scurf to accumulate.

[256]. Where milk does not agree, it may generally be made to do so by the addition of one part of lime-water to seven parts of new milk. Moreover, the lime will be of service in hardening his bones; and in these cases, the bones require hardening.

[257]. Which may be procured at any respectable india-rubber warehouse.

[258].

Take of—Spirits of Turpentine, three drachms;

Camphorated Oil, nine drachms:

Mix for a Liniment. For an adult, four drachms of the former, and eight of the latter, may be used. If the child be young, or if the skin be very tender, the camphorated oil may be used without the turpentine.

[259]. Wilson, on Healthy Skin.

[260]. Rain water ought always to be used in the washing of a child; pump-water is likely to chap the skin, and to make it both rough and irritable.