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ANOTHER REMEDY believed in by many of our medical brethren is the 

 "dry" plan, which, at any rate, has the merit of simplicity, for it consists- 

 in merely abstaining from every kind of liquid until the disorder is gone. 



Although opinions may differ, however, as to the precise method of cure, 

 and any of those given will be found equally efficient, there is no differ- 

 ence of opinion as to the cause and prevention. The too frequent cause 

 is -imply the result of carelessness or imprudence in not protecting the 

 body against the variation of temperature, an insufficient use of cold or 

 warm water to the body, or plainly, uncleanliness, sleeping under too 

 much clothing, or by sleeping in badly- ventilated rooms; but the first 

 mentioned, the passing from a hot room out into the open air, or int 

 room where the temperature is less, without being suitably attired, is the 

 most frequent and the most to be guarded against with children. 



The prevention of cold is best achieved by diminishing the susceptibil- 

 ity of the system by abstemious living, taking regular and daily exer 

 in the open air, and a morning bath of cold water if the child be strong 

 enough, and if not, a tepid one; but the best prevention and cure for cold* 

 \B a the cold water cure." 



TEETHING, 



is one of the most distressing of the ordinary ailments of children, for it 

 comes to them at an age when they are incapable of making the nature 

 of their sufferings known, and as they do suffer most acutely sonn'ti. 

 during the process of dentition, it is very trying to mothers and nurses to 

 have to witness their torture and be unable to alleviate it because the 

 poor little mites cannot explain their symptoms. 



Being one of the very common ills that flesh is heir to, it is a time f 



ntly regarded by some as more troublesome than important- a g 

 mistake, to prevent which a simple statement showing the action of 

 of the phases of the disease may be advisable. The chief disorders of 

 tii<t set of teeth are caries and inflammation in the periostea 1 membranes, 

 terminating in ftl 'f what is commonly called <jninln>ll. The lir-t 



Meet <>f inflammation in tin- periosteum is to en-ate pain, tenderness and 

 swelling in that part of the gum in close proximity to the tooth, and an 

 rtlusion of tluid between tin- fan-' ami its iimM nii; membrane, which U 

 thu.s converted into a sort of cyst or tiny sack of .skin. Repeated attaeks 



vtlammation at length end in the formation of pus. whi.-h cither bursts 

 through the tumour in tin- inim or may he removed by lain 

 times after the abbess has burst or been opene-1. a fun-us springs up 

 from the diseased membrane lining the ravity. With I -h-.-n the 



