1'irnTHKiii.v A r.s. 



Should the brain become affected, give very hot sitz and foot bath ten 



minutes. Follow this with enema of hot water. Apply cool cloths to the 



1, or, if more agreeable to the patient, warm spongings. Let the pa- 



ti'.-nt be kept in bed and seek to induce perspiration by applying bottles 



of hot water to the back and feet and drinking of hot water. 



In fact, the treatment now should be .the same as for inflammation of 

 the brain. 



DIPHTHERIA. 



In this to be dreaded and terrible disease, a false membrane forms in the 

 throat, and if the larynx becomes affected the chances of recovery are very 

 f- w indeed. Frequent vomiting, diarrhoea, hemorrhage from the nostrils 

 or elsewhere, frequency and fulness of the pulse, convulsions, delirium, 

 and coma, are symptoms which denote great danger. Occasionally the 

 muscles of both the upper and lower limbs are affected. The chief objects 

 in the treatment are to palliate symptoms, and support the powers of life 

 by the judicious employment of tonic remedies, conjoined with alimenta- 

 tion and alcoholic stimulants. The latter are given in large quantit 

 The best advice to give to mothers in regard to diphtheria is, send instant- 

 hi for the doctor. Do not delay one moment ! 



ACCIDENTS, 



It is an accepted axiom that accidents will happen, no matter how 

 regulated the household; and though much has been written with a view 

 v. -rt the more serious calamities supposed to be the outcome of acci- 

 dent, but which are invariably the result of carelessness, children still 

 n. image to burn themselves at fires, to scald themselves with hot water, to 

 cut their fingers, to break their heads, etc. 



As a rule, the remedies required to be of any service should he applie 1 

 at once ; and it is, therefore, no earthly use suggesting antidotes <>r appli- 

 ances only to be met with in a doctor's surgery. I shall, therefore, in the 

 LQDfl 1 make, more particularly dwell upon those .simple ivm.- 

 which may reasonably he expected to be found in every h< 

 In the summer months, when the weather is seasonable, the heat is of- 

 ('ntini. - -utlici'-nt to can-.' chiMivn to bleed at the nose. In such 01 

 be bleeding be n ive <>\- too frequent, it is ii"t <l<'-ir.ihle to stop 



..hen caused by an undue fulness of the blood- vessels of the he;id. it 

 Mfl.' ' ivlief. When, however, the bleeding is the result i' a kii'.ek 



or blow, cold applications should lie applied to the nose or fun-head, and 

 child kept ^tandinij in the ..pen air. 



