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dren we may administer every two hours a teaspoonful of salep de- 

 coction containing two to five parts of laudanum to the hundred. 



If the diarrhoea becomes chronic, and other nourishment does 

 not answer well, we may try chopped or shaved raw lean mutton or 

 beef, with the connective tissue removed as much as possible ; this 

 may be given in teaspoonful doses, or we may try emulsion of pep- 

 tonized flesh. Among the foods may be mentioned soft-boiled eggs 

 and peptouic emulsions. In some cases all alcoholics should be 

 avoided. 



Dr. W. H. Thompson says soured milk is often a very desirable 

 food. It should be prepared by warming half a pint of fresh milk, 

 and adding two tablespoonfuls of yeast ; after eight hours take two 

 tablespoonfuls of this curdled milk to curdle another half -pint of 

 warmed milk ; when the sixth specimen has thus been soured, the 

 bitter taste of the yeast is lost. Milk thus prepared- is to be well 

 stirred and eaten with bread. This milk is more digestible, because 

 it does not need to be curdled by the stomach. 



