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DIET AND TREATMENT OF INFANT CHILDREN. 105. 
and is not larger than a large walnut—a table-spoonful at a 
time is enough, Keep the child clean and wash it, once a 
day in warm water. Dress them. loose, and never give a. 
young child medicine under three months.of age; not more 
than a drop of oil of anise, or ten or twelve drops of anise) 
seed tea in breast milk. The nurse should drink freely of a. 
tea made.of burdock roots, balsam. boughs and _safsaparilla.. 
roots, equal parts, . Let the child have pure air, but keep the 
room warm, and if the mother is sickly bring the child up. 
by hand, two parts of cow’s milk and one part water, sweet~_ 
ened with loaf sugar, milk warm when given, . ieshomtrios ine 
ins sili, One drachm of anise seed steeped 
poe give a little sie water. To prevent 
COMMON PRACTICE OF THE MODERN DOCTORS. —— 
Wuewy a person is sick and sends for a doctor, the doctor 
comes and feels the pulse, inquires the complaints, and then 
tells him he is threatened with a fever, and he will try to 
throw it off ; then gives a puke, takes his hat and goes home. 
Next morning returns, tells him the fever is settled, and it 
will run ten or fifteen days. Then deals out medicine, first 
calomel and Rhubarb, to be given first. Then mixes pow- 
dered camphor, saltpetre, and magnesia, gives what will lay 
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