The relative influences of maternal and wet-nursing on mother and child / by Joseph Edcil Winters.

  • Winters, Joseph Edcil, -1922.
Date:
1886
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    lo lowing she had dysmenorrhoea, pelvic peritonitis, uterine displacement. Case 15. — First two children nursed, and mother continued in good health. Third child not nursed; men- struated fifth week ; dysmenorrhoea and leucorrhoea sub- sequently. Uterus on examination found to be much en- larged, with mucous discharge. The experience of Dr. Rene Blache corresponds closely with that of Dr. A. Verriet-Litardi^re. He states * * that in 12 observations in which the mothers had not nursed their children, and became sick, all regained their health on nursing their later children. Of 20 other mothers who nursed their children, all remained free from puer- peral diseases. We could follow these 12 cases with the 20 others, all taken among the upper classes. Not 07ie of these 32 women had any puerperal accident. Not 'one of them had any serious uterine affection—neither dis- placement, congestion, hypertrophy, fibroma, peritonitis, ovaritis, nor cyst of the ovary. Aran states “ : “In 70 of 100 uterine cases which have come under my observation, the women have not suckled.” Gubian, Sr., showed ^ from numerous observations that unmarried mothers suffered from uterine affections from not having nursed their children, and, on the contrary, moth- ers of families, who, having nursed their children, had no lesion of the uterus, though among a number of the latter were some women who had had ten, seventeen, and even twenty confinements. “ I have long ago confirmed Aran’s assertion,” Tilt says, “ respecting the frequency of uterine disease in those who do not suckle.” * Dr. Vedeler statesthat of 38 women who, while nurs- * Schmidt’s Jahrbucher, etc., 1881, Band 192, p. 165, and De I’Allaitement Ma- ternel Lue k I’Academic de M^d., November 30, 1880, pp. 7-8. * F. A. Aran : Traits des Metritis, p. 77. * M. Gubian, Jr.: Gazette M^d. de Lyon, 1867, p. 48. * Tilt, Edward John : London Lancet, August 12, 1876, vol. ii., p. 217. f Schmidt’s Jahrbucher, 1882, Band 193, pp. 42, 43-