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Title
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For sore nipples
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Description
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A remedy for women experiencing soreness in conjunction with breast feeding. Calls for covering their nipples with gold leaf. Also includes instructions for using the ashes of sea coal (pieces of coal washed up by the sea) to end lactation once the breastfeeding child has been weaned.
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Transcript
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Get a sheete of leafe gold: it will cost 4d or 6d. Cutt as much as will cover the nipples & lay it all over them & it will cleave & heale. if a child suck the party: let it be laid on assoone as the child hath done sucking. & then keep yr child as long as you can conveniently from sucking: but whan yr child sucks it will doe the child good you may lay more leafe = gold on: as you see cause. [inserted bottom: & to dry up the Milk Nothing beter thn Sea Cole ashes sifted & Lade in a bagg to the Brest often shifted
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Contributor
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Ochsner, Elizabeth
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Le, Vincent
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
