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ys, until the milk has come and the milk fever passed, the mother should live upon light food,--oatmeal gruel, tea and toast, panada, or anything else of little bulk and unstimulating character. Afterwards the diet may be increased by the addition of chicken, lamb, mutton or oyster broth, buttered toast, and eggs. The object of light nourishment at first is to prevent the too rapid secretion of milk, which might be attended with evil local and constitutional effects. If, however, the mother be in feeble health, it will be necessary from the outset that she shall be supported with nourishing concentrated food. _Beef-tea_ will then be found very serviceable, particularly if made according to the following recipe:--Take a pound of fresh beef from the loins or neck. Free it carefully from all fat. Cut it up into fine pieces, and add a very little salt and five grains of unbroken black pepper. Pour on it a pint of cold water, and _simmer_ for forty minutes. Then pour off the liquor, place the meat in a cloth, and, after squeezing the juice from it into the tea, throw it aside. Return to the fire, and boil for ten minutes. After the first week, the diet of the lying-in woman should always be nutritious, though plain and simple. The development of the mammary glands, the production of the mammary secretion, and the reduction which takes place in the size of the womb, all require increased nourishment, that they may be properly performed. After the third or fourth day _the dress should be changed_. The dress worn during labor, if our directions have been carried out, will not have been soiled. The clothing should be changed without uncovering the person, and without raising the head from the pillow. Pull the bed-gown from over each arm, and draw it out from under the body. Then unfasten the chemise in front and draw it down underneath her so that it can be removed from below, as it should not be carried over the head. Place her arms in the sleeves of the clean chemise, throw its body over her head, and, without lifting her shoulders from the bed, draw it down. Then change the bed-gown in the same manner. In changing the upper sheet, it should be pulled off from below, and the clean one carried down in its place from above, underneath the other clothing, which can be readily accomplished by plaiting the lower half. In introducing a clean under-sheet, one side of it should be plaited and placed under the patient, lying on he
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