Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

by Pye Henry Chavasse

[300]. Winter in the South of Europe. By J. Henry Bennett. Third Edition. London: Churchill and Sons, 1865.

[301]. A wineglassful of barm, a wineglassful of vinegar, and the remaining sage tea, to make a half-pint bottle of gargle.

[302]. December 10, 1864.

[303]. Shakspeare knew the great importance of not crowding around a patient who has fainted. He says:

“So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons;

Come all to help him, and so stop the air

By which he should revive.”

Measure for Measure, Act ii. sc. 4.

[304]. For the best way of stewing prunes, see page [1258].

[305]. Professor Trousseau in Medical Circular, Feb. 5, 1862.