The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.

How to take away the Canker from the mouths of Infants.

THere have been known certain Children which have ben nourished with cold milk, which hath been thick, and in great quantity, which a few days after its birth, hath heated the mouth of the Infant in such a fashion, that it caused a white Canker, which presently possessed the tongue, palate, the gums, the throat, and all the mouth, whereupon it was taken with a Fever, and it could no longer suck, all the assistance that could be was still applied, and when no other Medicine did avail, there was found one, a par∣ticular remedy, which was half a handful of Sage, a handful of Chervil bruised a little, and boyled in a sufficient quantity of water, about a dozen seethings, to which you must add a spoonful of Vinegar; when you have strained it, you must put to it an ounce of Honey of Roses, then you must have a little hooked stick, with a little piece of Scarlet tied at the end, then put∣ting the water in a Sawcer, dip the end of the stick where the Scarlet is tied, and then rub the place affected gently, and you shall find the Canker 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a••∣swage by little and little.