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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Sun Mar 23, 2014, 07:18 AM Mar 2014

To cure thrush

It was once believed that thrush in infants could be cured by taking the infant, fasting, on three consecutive mornings, to have their mouths blown into by a posthumous child.

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To cure thrush (Original Post) My Good Babushka Mar 2014 OP

Wait, what? Suich Mar 2014 #1

I suppose the posthumous child My Good Babushka Mar 2014 #2

Dictionary says posthumous (of a child) Paulie Mar 2014 #3

That's right! I forgot. My Good Babushka Mar 2014 #4

Wouldn't be a Monday without disappointment! Paulie Mar 2014 #5

True dat. nt My Good Babushka Mar 2014 #6

Suich

(10,642 posts)

1. Wait, what?

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 05:51 PM

Mar 2014

Isn't a "posthumous child" dead? As in unable to blow into anybody's mouth?

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

2. I suppose the posthumous child

Reply to Suich (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 06:23 AM

Mar 2014

would have to be manipulated to expel air from it's mouth. Midwives may have performed this services with stillborns, as near as I can figure.

Paulie

(8,462 posts)

3. Dictionary says posthumous (of a child)

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 07:05 AM

Mar 2014

Born after the death of its father.

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

4. That's right! I forgot.

Reply to Paulie (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 07:37 AM

Mar 2014

But that's less satisfyingly ghoulish. Now I'm disappointed.

Paulie

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5. Wouldn't be a Monday without disappointment!

Reply to My Good Babushka (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 08:14 AM

Mar 2014

Morning!

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

6. True dat. nt

Reply to Paulie (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 08:42 AM

Mar 2014

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