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eaufes the gripes, proceed as follows: take rhubarb powdered fine, and magnefia 
alba, of each ten grains ; oil of annifeed, one drop: mix. Give half this fora 
purge, ina fpoonful of the mother’s milk, and repeat the dofe two or three times 
if there be occafion. When worms are the caufe of the gripes, the readieft way to 
remove them is by giving AZthiop’s mineral and rhubarb mixed in equal quantities, 
about fivegrains ata time, twice a-day. If wind be the caufe, the belly of the child 
may be anointed with a mixture of two parts oil of fweet almonds and one part 
French brandy ; wrapping the part up watm afterwards witha flannel. » 
The fymptoms of cutting teeth generally begin about the fifth or fixth: ann at 
which time fome of the fore teeth rife, and occafion great pain, or evem convulfions. 
Children have then commonly an itching, heat, pain, and fwelling, ia the gums ;! 
their fpictle rifeth much 5. they are reftlefs and feverith, fometimes loofe, and fome- 
times coftive; A few-days before any tootlt is cut, the gum immediately above it 
appears thin and whitifh, its fides being {welled and inflamed. Children of grofs 
habit, and who-breed their teeth with coftivenels, are generally in mot danger. The 
following mixture, given occafionally, w will mitigate the pain, during the cutting 
teeth: take black cherry water, two ounces; compound piony water, two drachms; 
confeétion of kermes, two fcruples ; Sydenham’s liquid Jaudanum, ——"" 
mix. Let one fpoonful begiven ata time, when the child is very-reftlets. 
Thofe little ulcerous eruptions in the mouth called the thrufh, which fects 
appear early, and fometimes not till the third or fourth year, are accou nted danger 
ous when joined with a fever, and’are always troublefome. ‘The child here fhould 
be kept moderately cool, as in a common fever, and a {mall blifter may be applied 
to the neck, ‘if the diforder be great. In the mean tin ule the following julep: 
take black cherry water, four ounces ; treacle water, one ‘ounce; lemon juice, fix 
- “Grachms; {pirit of fweet nitre and fpt. volatile oleofum, of éach fifteen op 
mix. Givea fpoonful or two every third or fourth hour; anddlet ——.. ° e 
mouth be ‘cleanfed with the following gargle: take barley anaes _ ‘ 
eft vinegar, one ounce ; , fyrup ‘of mulberries, fix drachms: mux. ? 
ufed twice or thrice a-day,. witha foft linen rag, or the nurfe’sdingere os  - 
and tieht fwathing, are apt to canfe: ruptures 
crying, violent motion, 
| Ee ade infants: While the raprare: wie may be pare by 
: ade for that purpe ringent fomentations,’ 
: he tee eatie ‘and red’rofe flowers, boiled in st watery, 
iit mixed with red wine, ay be — aeer tbe inteftines are ne . dps 
be immediately ¢ done. Small 
: ildren, are ‘ofually 
| Hope fe 3 nthey continue ganinate; t 
“dle, as quiet as iim 3 When 
