Title

To dry up milk

Description

Two methods for drying up breast milk (presumably after weaning a breast feeding child) by applying soaked cloths; one with alum, and the other, diachylon .

Transcript

Boil a piece of Roach Allum in fair watter dip clothes therein and Lay to the Brest or 2 plastens of Diaclulon spred on linen

Subject

See all items with this valuebreast feeding

See all items with this valuepoultices

Contributor

Ochsner, Elizabeth

Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.