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HINTS TO TRAVELLERS. 
Care of Infants and Children. 
Children must be warmly clad, and proper food should be administered 
at regular intervals and not too frequently. 
The simplest remedies only should be used, such as poultices, castor 
oil, ipecacuanha wine and magnesia. On no account should any drug 
containing opium or morphia, such as chlorodyne, laudanum, or Dover’s 
powder, be given. In malarious countries, and where mosquitoes 
abound, the legs and arms should always be covered. 
A flannel binder should always be worn. Children are very liable 
to chill; this is best treated by putting the child to bed, giving it 
warm drinks, covering it well to promote perspiration, and adminis¬ 
tering a teaspoonful or more of castor oil. 
The temperature and pulse rate are more liable to rapid variations in 
children than in adults. 
The best food for infants and children who are sick is milk, which may 
be diluted with thin barley water or lime water. 
In children many acute diseases, such as scarlet fever or inflammation 
of the lungs, may be ushered in with convulsions. Convulsions are also 
common in teething, and for their treatment the wise mother will trust 
more to warm baths, suitable diet and gentle aperients than to powerful 
drugs. Frequently an emetic such as ipecacuanha or ipecacuanha wine 
does good. When chest or abdominal trouble is suspected, a warm 
linseed poultice should be applied. If a sedative is required, then 
bromide of potassium may be given in small doses—say three grains to 
begin with. 
Intestinal tvorms may cause mental depression, grinding of the teeth, 
indigestion, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, sleeplessness and even convul¬ 
sions ; the motions therefore in a suspected case must be very carefully 
examined, and, if the large round worm is found, one or two grains of 
santonin should be given. Weak salt and water injections into the bowel 
should be administered for thread-worm. The tape-worm is not common 
in children. 
Diarrhoea in children is usually caused by the presence in the 
bowel of some irritant such as bad or indigestible food. Treatment: 
begin with an aperient, give a milk diet, put the sufferer to bed; if the 
