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CHILDREN, Disease in, Signs of.— In 

 the case of a baby not yet able to talk, it 

 must cry when it is ill The colic makes 

 a baby cry loud, long, and passionately, 

 and shed tears — stopping for a moment 

 and beginning again. 



If the chest is affected, it gives one 

 sharp cry, breaking off immediately, as if 

 crying hurt it. 



If the head is affected, it cries in 

 sharp, piercing shrieks, with low moans 

 and wails between. Or there may be 

 quiet dozing, and startings between. 



It is easy enough to perceive, where a 

 child is attacked by disease, that there 

 has some change taken place ; for either 

 its skin will be dry and hot, its appetite 

 gone ; it is stupidly ' sleepy, or fretful or 

 crying ; it is thirsty, or pale and languid, 

 or in some way betrays that something is 

 wrong. When a child vomits, or has a 

 diarrhoea, or is costive and feverish, it is 

 owing to some derangement, and needs 

 attention. But these various symptoms 

 may continue for a day or two before the 

 nature of the disease can be determined. 

 A warm bath, warm drinks, etc., can do 

 no harm, and may help to determine the 

 case. On coming out of the bath, and 

 being well rubbed with the hand, the 

 skin will show symptoms of rash, if it is 

 a skin disease which has commenced. 

 By the appearance of the rash, the nature 

 of the disease can be learned. Measles 

 are in patches, dark red, and come out 

 first about the face. If scarlet fever is 

 impending, the skin will look a deep pink 

 all over the body, though most so about 

 the neck and face. Chicken-pox shows 

 fever, but not so much running at the 

 nose, and appearances of cold, as in 

 measles, nor is there as much of a cough. 

 Besides, the spots are smaller, and do 

 not run much together, and are more 

 diffused over the whole surface of the 

 skin ; and enlarge into blisters in a day or 

 two. 



CONSUMPTION. — Take one table- 

 spoonful of tar, and the yolks of three 

 hen's eggs, beat them well together. 

 Dose, one tablespoonful morning, noon 

 and night. 



CROUP, Remedy for in One Minute.— 

 This remedy is simply alum. Take a 

 knife or grater, and shave or grate off in 

 small particles about a teaspoonful of 

 alum ; mix it with about twice its quantity 



of sugar, to make it palatable, and ad- 

 minister as quick as possible. Its effects 

 will be truly magical, as almost instan- 

 taneous relief will be afforded. 



CHOLERA REMEDY, HARTS- 

 HORNE'S.— Take of chloroform, tincture 

 of opium, spirits of camphor, and spirits. 

 of aromatic ammonia, each one and one- 

 half fluid drachms ; creosote, three drops ;; 

 oil of cinnamon, eight drops; brandy, 

 two fluid drachms. Dilute a teaspoonful 

 with a wine-glass of water, and give two> 

 teaspoonfuls every five minutes, followed 

 by a lump of ice. 



DANDRUFF, Cure for.— Good mild 

 soap is one of the safest remedies, and is 

 sufficient in ordinary cases ; carbonate of 

 potash or soda is too alkaline for the skin. 

 Every application removes a portion of 

 the cuticle, as you may observe by the 

 smoothness of the skin of your hands 

 after washing them with it. Borax is 

 recommended; but this is also soda com- 

 bined with a weak acid, boracic acid, and 

 may by protracted use also injuriously act. 

 on the scalp. Soap is also soda or potash 

 combined with the weak, fatty acids ; 

 and when the soap contains an excess of 

 the alkalies or is sharp, it is as injurious: 

 as the carbonate of potash. All that 

 injures the scalp injures the growth of the 

 hair. One of the best applications from 

 the vegetable kingdom is the mucilagin- 

 ous decoction of the root of the burdock,, 

 called bardane, in French (botanical 

 name, Lappa Minor). In the mineral 

 kingdom the best remedy is a solution of 

 flowers of sulphur in water, which may be 

 made by the addition of a very small 

 portion of sulphide of potassium, say ten 

 or twenty grains to the pint. This solu- 

 tion is shaken up with the sulphur, and 

 the clear liquid remaining on the top is 

 used. This recipe is founded on the 

 fact that sulphur is a poison for inferior 

 vegetable or animal growth, like dandruff, 

 itch, etc., and is not all a poison for the 

 superior animals like man. 



DIPHTHERIA — A French physician ex- 

 presses his preference for lemon juice, as 

 a local application in diphtheria, to chlo- 

 rate of potash, nitrate of silver, perchlo- 

 ride of lime water. He uses it by dip- 

 ping a little plug of cottonwood, twisted 

 around a wire, in the juice, and pressing 

 it against the diseased surface four or five 

 times daily. 



