mushroom-water

Updated: May 18, 2025

Fed on sour rye bread and cabbage- or mushroom-water, working as much as the men, having less sleep, keeping more religious fasts, the peasant-women are only exceptionally capable of rearing their children by the natural process."... "I have seen children not a year old left for twenty-four hours entirely alone, and in order that they should not die of hunger feeding-bottles were attached to their hands and feet."

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875