Editing Castor oil (section)

=== Punishment ===
[[File:Kellogg's Perfected Tasteless Castor Oil, Spencer Kellogg and Sons Inc., New York 03.jpg|thumb|Warning label on a bottle of Kellogg's Perfected Tasteless Castor Oil, [[Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc.]], New York]]
Since children commonly strongly dislike the taste of castor oil, some parents [[child discipline|punished children]] with a dose of it.<ref>For an American example see {{cite book|author=David J. Rothman|title=Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfCrAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA279|year=1980|publisher=Transaction Publishers|page=279|access-date=2015-10-29|isbn=9780202365091|archive-date=2023-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114165300/https://books.google.com/books?id=BfCrAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA279|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>For a Canadian examples see {{cite book|author=Neil Sutherland|title=Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television|url=https://archive.org/details/growingupchildho0000suth|url-access=registration|year=1997|publisher=University of Toronto Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/growingupchildho0000suth/page/87 87]|access-date=2015-10-29|isbn=9780802079831}}</ref> Physicians recommended against the practice because it may associate medicines with punishment and make children afraid of the doctor.<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the American Medical Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mp0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1699|year=1919|publisher=American Medical Association.|page=1699|access-date=2015-10-29|archive-date=2023-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114165301/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mp0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1699|url-status=live}}</ref>