Note 23 — ON THE DISEASES OF PREGNANCY, AND HINTS FOR THEIR PREVENTION AND RELIEF.
Reading edition
In these cases medicine is not always necessary. Much benefit may be derived from the use of a laxative diet. Brown bread, mush, or hasty pudding made from rye or Indian meal, and eaten with molasses, the free use of the dried laxative fruits, as figs, dates, stewed prunes, and our native fruits when ripe, will often enable the patient to dispense with medicine.