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Convulsions or Fits. — When the child is in a fit, unfasten the 

 clothes, raise the head, and do not let it lean back or fall forward ; 

 give fresh air, rub the body with the hand, place the child in a 

 warm bath, at the same time applying cloths wet in cool water to 

 the head and face. Give an injection of molasses and warm 

 water ; repeat this injection several times at intervals of fifteen 

 minutes. Every family should have a syringe. Elastic syringes 

 are the best, and cost not over one dollar and fifty cents. 



Worms, — The certain evidences of the presence of worms in 

 children are, paleness, itching of the nose, starting and grinding 

 of the teeth during sleep, irregular appetite, fetid breath, hard 

 swelled belly, swollen upper lip, sore mouth and nose, one cheek 

 Jlushed, itching of the anus, drowsiness, and nervous starts. The 

 treatment should be both to remove the worms and give vigor to 

 the stomach. The best remedy' to have always on hand is pre- 

 pared as follows : — Take of fresh black alderberries one pint, cedar 

 or juniper apples (recent) one pound, bruise them, and soak in a 

 quart of alcohol for fourteen days, then strain and add one pint 

 of molasses. Give a teaspoonful three times a day to children 

 upwards of one year old. As soon as purging is accomplished, 

 reduce the dose, and continue for two or three weeks as a tonic. 



Summer Complaints are best treated by Prescription No. 1 ; 

 but often nothing has been provided beforehand, and this neg- 

 ligence renders other expedients necessary. Pain in the stomach 

 and bowels is evidence of the possibility of some severe attack, 

 and something had best be given the sufierer. Ginger is always 

 at hand. Pour half a pint of boiling water upon two tablespoon- 

 fuls of ginger ; add sugar and milk, and let the patient drink it 

 hot. Or two tablespoonfuls of gin may have a tumblerful of hot 

 water and a little sugar mixed with it. At the same time flannels 

 wrung out in hot water and laid over the stomach and bowels 

 will assist in the relief. The trouble with us as a people is that 

 we let all slight aff"ections go, and think we cannot spend time to 

 be doctored for a cold, a colic, or a diarrhoja. By this foolish 

 course many valuable lives are lost, many hours of pain and 

 wretchedness are endured, and injured constitutions and impaired 

 powers are the result. We therefore rank arreative treatment 

 as next in importance to preventive. To arrest the progress of 

 disease in its first stages is wisdom. A diarrhoea is readily ar- 

 rested in its first stage by a few doses of " chalk mixture," to be 

 obtained of any druggist, or even by a dose of ginger and molasses, 

 but if left to run on, it may soon become dysentery and death. 

 The diet should be reduced at once when cholera morbus, colic, 

 or diarrhoea are present. Take some simple remedy to check the 

 disorder, reduce the diet suflicient to give the stomach an opix)r- 

 tunity to recover, and the chances are as nine hundred and ninety- 

 nine to one that you will be saved further trouble. Cherry brandy 



