Alsaharavius properly recommends attention to correct the acrimony of the
nurse’s milk; to wash the child with decoctions of roses, myrtle leaves,
and the like; if the pustules are of a dry nature, to rub them with oil
of sesame or of violets; and, if humid, with an ointment made of wax,
litharge, and rose-oil.
Rhases directs the nurse to abstain from sweet and salt things, as they
inflame the blood; and to put the child into a bath medicated with
mallows, pearl-barley, fenugreek, gourds, &c.
Avicenna and Haly Abbas treat the complaint upon similar principles.