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1 b ed with mustard rd’ and. brandy, or-other heating, stimulating 
s; or an ointment of green tobacco in lard, may be applied. 
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SHILDREN are often seized very suddenly with this disorder, which, 
it quickly relieved, proves suddenly mortal. It seems to bea 
common in low marshy countries. Children of a gross and lax 
It generally attacks children in’ the 
night, after having been much exposed to damp cold easterly winds 
through the day. Damp houses, wet feet, thin shoes, wet clothes, 
any thing that obstructs the perspiration, may occasion the croup. 
attended with a frequent pulse, quick and laborious breath- 
hich is performed with a peculiar kind of croaking, or rattling 
that may be heard at some distance. The voice is sharp and 
hill, and the face generally much flushed, though sometimes it is 
of a livid color. 
: ‘When a child is seized with the above symptoms, his feet should 
immediately be put into warm water, and afterwards draughts of 
garlic or onions applied to their soles. To break up the phlegm, 
give a blood root emetic, repeating it as often as necessary. » No- 
‘ung can operate more beautifully or effectually than this, in break- 
_ Ing up the croup. Another article, with which 1 have often saved 
life in the last extremity, when the breath was almost totally stopped, 
1s rattlesnake’s oil: four or five drops given on sugar, is sufficient 
for a child of two years old at a dose. ‘This. cuts up the phlegm, 
and : the. 1 { almost i stantar = a horses 
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May be given to great advantage. Wild turnit s| 
cents, diaphoretics, and expectorants, are proper 
Tl pitch plaster, worn-continually between the shoule __ 
ders, very happy effect in relieving this dreadful disorder, and 
preventing its return. ; . 
OF TEETHING, 
Ir has been supposed that above a tenth part. of infants dic in 
teething, by symptoms proceeding from the irritation of the tender 
nervous parts of the jaws, occasioning inflammations, fevers, com- 
vulsions, gangrenes, &&c. These symptoms are in a great measure 
owing to the great delicacy and exquisite sensibility of the nervous — 
system at this time of life, which is too often increased by an efle- 
_ minate education. Hence it comes to pass, that childrem, who ar 
delicately brought up, always suffer most in teethingy.cw -4a.¢ 
- About the sixth or seventh month, the teeth generally begin to 
make their appearance ; first, the front-teeth ; next, the dog-teeth ; 
and lastly, the grinders... The seventh year there comes.a new set ; 
and about the twentieth, the two inner grinders, called the teeth of 
dren about the time of cutting thei teeth, slaver. much, and 
nerally a looseness. When the teething is difficult, e: 
