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SORE THROAT. All cases of sore throat should be considered 

 suspicious, on account of diphtheria. Diphtheria commences with 

 whitish grey spots on back of throat. Treatment. For ordinary sore 

 throat : (a] Use a gargle of alum ; (7?) poultices to throat. 



CONVULSIONS. Occurs in children ; (a) put in warm bath ; 

 (b) give a smart purge of castor oil ; . (c) if due to food, give an 

 emetic. 



COLIC, OR GRIPES. (a) Linseed poultices to abdomen : (b) 

 chlorodyne, 30 drops, and repeat in two hours, if necessary ; (c) 

 capsicum, ginger, eucalyptus, 15 drops ; (if) castor oil. . 



DIARRHCEA. (a) See treatment for colic ; (b) milk diet. This 

 does not apply to diarrhoea in children, which requires a doctor. 



PAIX. (a) Heat, as poultices ; (b) rest ; elevation. 



VOMITING (a) Small doses of milk ; (b) ice to suck ; (c) mustard, 

 bran, or linseed poultices to the stomach ; (if) fresh air. 



CONSTIPATION AND INDIGESTION. (n) Active exercise, especially 

 riding ; (6) green vegetables, and fruit ; (c) oat-meal ; brown 

 bread ; (ti) Hot water before breakfast ; (c) small doses of epsom 

 salts in hot water before breakfast ; (/) regularity in meals ; (g) 

 regularity in going to stool ; (//) well made coffee or tea ; (/') olive 

 or olive oil fat. 



DISINFECTANTS. (a) Sulphur fumes for rooms ; (6) boiling or 

 steam for clothes ; (c) rags should be burnt ; (if) chloride of lime 

 about the rooms ; (c) excreta should be burnt or put in solutions of 

 carbolic acid, sulphate of iron, condy's fluid, corrosive sublimate. 



