If the breasts are simply slightly enlarged, it is unnecessary to do
any thing more than rub them occasionally and very gently with warm
almond oil, and a little time will restore them to their proper size.
If, however, they are inflamed, hot, painful, with a red surface, and
unusually large, a bread and water poultice must be applied every three
or four hours, which will generally prevent either the formation of
matter, or any other unpleasant consequence. In a few days, under this
treatment, they will usually subside, and be quite well.
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES.
ITS IMPORTANCE.--About the second or third day after the child's birth,
an inflammation sometimes attacks the eye, which is of considerable
consequence. The more so, from its commencing in a way not calculated
to excite the attention, or alarm the fears, of the mother or nurse.
The child cannot express its sensations, and the swelling of the eye
conceals the progress of the disease, so that serious mischief is
frequently done before the medical man sees the patient. In the first
place, the inflammation is not immediately noticed; and, in the second,
the measures employed are frequently insufficient to check its
progress: hence it causes more blindness (I refer to the lower classes
of society more particularly) than any other inflammatory disorder that
happens to the eye; and the number of children is very considerable,
whose sight is partially or completely destroyed by it.
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