Class I. r. 2. 6. OF IRRITATION. * &J 



children, have this natural food of milk prepared for them, the 

 analogy is fo ftrong in favour of its fafobrify, that a perfoa 

 fhould have powerful teftimony indeed of its difagreeing before 

 he advifes the discontinuance of the ule of it to young children 

 in health, and much more lb in Gckneis. The farmers lefe many 

 of their calves, which are brought up by gruel, or gruel and 

 old milk ; and among the poor children of Derby, who arc 

 thus fed, hundreds are ftarved inco the fcroful.a, and either perifh, 

 or live in a ftate of wretched debility. 



When young children are brought up without a bread, they 

 fhould for the firft two months have no food but new milk ; 

 fince the addition of any kind of bread or flour is liable to fer- 

 ment, and produce too much acidity ; as appears by the confe- 

 quent diarrhoea with green dejections and gripes j the colour is 

 owing to a mixture of acid with the natural quantity of bile, and 

 the pain to its {famulus. And they fhould never be fed as they 

 he upon their backs, as in that pofture they are neceuitated to 

 fvvallow all that is put into their mouths \ but when they are fed 3 

 as they aire fitting up, or raifed up, when they have had enough, 

 ihey can permit the reft to run out of their mouths. This cir- 

 cumilance is of great importance to the health of thole children* 

 who are reared by the fpoon, fince if too much food is given 

 them, indigeftion,and gripes, and diarrhoea, are the confequencej 

 and if too little, they become emaciated j and of this exacl: 

 quantity their own palates judge the belt. 



M. M. In this lafi cafe of the diarrhoea of children, the food 

 fhould be new milk, which by curdling dedroys part of the acid, 

 which coagulates it.^ Chalk about four grains every fix hours, 

 with one drop of fpirit of hartfhorn, and half a drop of lauda- 

 num. But a biifter about the fize of a (hilling is of the greater!: 

 fervice by reftoring the power of digeftion. See Article III. 2. 

 1 . in the Materia Medica. 



6. Sa/ivatio calida. Warm falivation. Increafed fecretion of 

 faliva. This may be effected either by Simulating the mouth 

 of the gland by mercury taken internally; or by ftimularing the 

 excretory duel of the gland by pyrethrum, or tobacco ; or lim- 

 ply by the movement of the mufcles, which lie over the gland, as 

 in mafticating any taitelefs fubftanee, as a lock of wool, or 

 maftic. 



In about the middle of nervous fevers a great fpitting of fali- 

 va fometimes occurs, which has been thought critical ; but as it 

 continues fometimes two or even three weeks without the relief 

 of the patient, it may be concluded to arife from fome acciden- 

 tal circumilance, perhaps not unlimilar to the hyfteric ptyalifma 

 mentioned in Clafs I. 3. 2. 2. See Sea. XXIV.' 



M. M. Cool 



