Author Bibliography (in progress)
The Family Nurse (1837)
AUTHOR: Child, Lydia Maria
https://archive.org/details/familynurseorcom00chilrich/page/n3/mode/2up
Sequel to The Frugal Housewife.
KEYWORDS: animals, children, food, health
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SUMMARY (Bryn Skibo, edited Deborah Madsen)
Child recommends that “Fleshy, full-blooded people will do well to eat no animal food, especially in summer” (13). As in The Frugal Housewife, she recommends fasting for the sick. However, the milk of asses, mules, or women is recommended to treat consumption and “women’s milk is said to have an efficacy superior to either” (16). The excessive consumption of “animal food” is considered to be bad for the teeth (7) and injurious to the treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, and other inflammatory diseases (14), fevers (15), whooping cough and Scarlet Fever in children (57, 62), and even burns (75). Reducing a child’s intake of animal foods is considered to be very beneficial for their health (42), though a wide variety of vegetables served in the same meal is not (ibid).
Child addresses general preventative medicine and the preparation of certain curative foods; she then turns to medicine specifically for children and ways to keep children healthy; finally she lists common medicines (of herbs and roots, poultices, ointments, narcotic poisons, external poisons, baths and fomentations, enemas, or injections, blisters, leeches, and ointments).
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