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calomel, given in the fame manner as for correding griping 

 and gi'een flools. 



Although not immediately conneded with my prefent fub- 

 jedl, it may not be altogether ufelefs to remark, that along 

 with an herpetic eruption on infants there is fometimes a 

 mixture of itch which creates a very troublefome difeafe, and 

 one very liable to be mifunderflood. It is principally by ap- 

 pearances on the nurfe that the exiflence of itch on the infant 

 can be difcovered. Herpes on the infant we know generally 

 brings out fome eruption on the nurfe, but on accurate ex- 

 amination this will be found very different in its progrefs and 

 effc<5ls from itch. The mode of curing itch in adults, when 

 difcovered, is now well afcertained ; but there is great reafon 

 to doubt whether the fame treatment be fafely applicable to 

 infants, and efpecially when itch is combined with herpes. 

 Coughs of a very dangerous tendency have been obfervJed to 

 arife after the application of fulphur ointment to infants. 

 Fortunately there is no abfolute neceffity for its ufe. Com- 

 mon flick brimftone, bruifed and boiled for fome time in 

 water, gives a fulphureous impregnation, which ufcd as a tepid 

 bath every night at bed time feldom fails to cure the itch in 

 infants in a few weeks, without any rifk of obflru(fling the 

 pores of the fkin, or of repreffing too much the herpetic erup- 

 tion. In all fuch cafes it is prudent to make the nurfe rxib 

 the eruption on her with fulphur ointment, while at the fame 

 time flie takes flour of fulphur and magnefia internally, fo 

 as to keep the bowels moderately open. The infant fhould 



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