,s I. i. 2. 6. OF IRRITATION. 21 



children, have this natural food of milk prepared for them, tK* 



; fo itrong in favour of its falubrity, that a perfoa 



lei have powerful teftimony indeed of its difagreeing before 



Ivifes the difccr.linuance of the ufe of it to young children 



in health, and much more fo in iickneis. The farmers lofe many 



of their calves, which are brought up by gruel, or gruel and 



old milk ; and among the poor children cf Derby, who are 



thus fed, hundreds are flarved into the fcrqfula, and either perifli, 



or live in a (late of wretched debility. 



When young children are brought up without a bread, they 

 (houid for the firft tv/o months have no food but new miJk ; 

 fince the addition of any kind of bread or flour is liable to fer-. 

 ment, and produce too much acidity ; as appears by the confe- 

 quent diarrhcea with green dejections and gripes ; the colour is 

 owing to a mixture of acid with the natural quantity of bile, and 

 the pain to its itimulus. And they ihould never be fed as they 

 lie upon their backs, as in that pofture they are neceffitated to 

 iwailow all that is put into their mouths ; but when they are fed, 

 as they are fitting up, or raifed up, when they have had enough, 

 they can permit the reft to run out of their mouths. This cir- 

 cumftance is of great importance to the health of thofe children, 

 who are reared by the fpoon, fince if too much food is given 

 them, indigeition,and gripes, and diarrhoea, are the confequence; 

 and if too little, they become emaciated ; and of this exact 

 .<ju.mt.ity their own palates judge the beft. 



M. M. In this laft cafe of the diarrhoea of children, the food 

 fhould be new milk, which by curdling deftroys part of the acid, 

 which coagulates it. Chalk about four grains every fix hours, 

 with one drop of fpirit of hartihorn, and half a drop of lauda- 

 r.u;Ti. But a blifter about the fize of a milling is of the greateit 

 ferviceby reftoring the power of digeftion. See Article III. 2. 

 i . in the Materia Medica. 



6. Salivatio callda. Warm falivation. Increafed fecretion of 

 fiiliva. This may be eifecled either by (limulating the mouth 

 of the gland by mercury taken internally ; or by ftimulating the 

 excretory duel: of the gland by pyrethrum, or tobacco; or (im- 

 rly by the movement of the mufcles, which lie over the gland, as 

 in maflicating any taftelefs fubftance, as a lock of wool, or 

 'Lie. 



In about the middle of nervous fevers a great fpitting of fali- 



vi foretimes occurs, which has been thought critical ; but as it 



com.in.ues fometimes two or even three weeks without the relief 



<<f the patient, it may be concluded to arife from fome acciden- 



rcumftance, perhaps not unfimilar to the hyfleric ptyalifms 



ioncd in Clais I. 3. 2. 2. See Sed. XXIV. 



M, M. Coo] 



