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children one to two years old ; one-half the quantity for 

 children below that age. The drug most favored by me 

 is salicylate of soda. This I have given one grain for 

 each year every two or three hours, depending on the 

 urgency of the symptoms^ so that a child five years old 

 would receive five grains every two or three hours, and 

 a child ten years old ten grains every two or three hours. 

 The ordinary rules of therapeutics apply as well in in- 

 fluenza as they do in all diseases. Thus, for example, 

 the alimentary tract must be kept perfectly clean, and if 

 there is not a good movement once in twenty-four hours 

 the compound infusion of senna should be given to a 

 child in doses of three or four teaspoonfuls in three or 

 four hours, and if this is followed by copious stools, then 

 an enema consisting of a half teacup of glycerine and 

 one-half teacup of warm water should he administered 

 quite high into the rectum. By placing the child on its 

 side this can be easily accomplished. 



The diet should be very bland, and solid food excluded 

 through the course of an attack of influenza. The best 

 mode of feeding is to give concentrated soups, farinaceous 

 food, soft eggs, oysters, milk, broths, koumyss, and if the 

 vital powers are considerably reduced, then Rudisch's 

 sarco peptones or Valentine's meat juice, given preferably 

 in soups or milk, should be administered. 



For the severe pains in the limbs, I have found gentle 

 massage beneficial, in some cases with vaseline, in others 

 with alcohol, using the massage two or three times a day 

 over the back, arms and legs. 



Whilst stimulation is not called for, it is a wise plan to 

 administer alcohol occasionally. But if the pulse is 

 feeble, then I have seen good results following the ad- 

 ministration of one-half teaspoonful of whiskey in a 

 teacupful of boiled milk, with the addition of the yolk 

 of a raw egg in sugar. This milk punch, as it were, can 

 be given in doses of two or three teaspoonfuls, ice-cold. 



