I just came across this item when looking through old papers. It is from a
1878 source, Advice to a Mother by Pye Henry Chavasse of Birmingham,
England, an edited extract from which appears in the newsletter of the
History of infant Feeding Association, Food for Tot, vol. 19, no. 2, June
2007. Chavasse was an eminent Birmingham medical man. A website link was
included, which I haven't checked - it is an old one from 2007.

To paraphrase the advice on tongue tie:
If a newborn's tongue appeared restricted, so that he was "unable to apply
his tongue to the nipple", a "medical man" was to be asked to check for
tongue tie and, if this were so, "dividing the bridle of the tongue" would
remedy the matter so that the baby would "take the nipple with ease and
comfort".

Note the neat metaphor, from horse riding, "the bridle of the tongue".

The full title of this advice publication for mothers was: "Advice to a
mother on the management of her children and on the treatment on the moment
of some of their more pressing illnesses and accidents", by Pye Henry
Chavasse, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Fellow of the
Obstetrical Society of London, formerly President of Queen's College
Medico-Chirurgical Society. Birmingham.

This advice booklet was widely distributed and was then in its 13th edition.
It was translated into French, German, Polish and Tamil. The author stated
that English language version was distributed widely in America and the rest
of the English-speaking world.

Virginia

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA 
Brisbane, Qld, Australia 
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