DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 275 
think it is almost unavoidable. This is not so, for with proper 
care and favourable circumstances it is very unlikely to occur 
The causes that lead to it are impurity of air, improper 
nourishment, &c. The symptoms of it are so well known 
that it is scarcely needful to notice them. The small ulcers on 
the tongue, mouth, and throat, plainly show it. The disease 
is generally free from danger in the first stages ; but if neglected 
a train of symptoms will follow, which it may be difficult to 
remove—fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, hiccough, &c., followed 
by dark livid spots, with sometimes a fatal termination. Taken 
in the first stage it is easy to remove. Make a medicine as 
follows :— 
THRUSH MEDICINE. 
Raspberry Leaves ......00...000eeee0s Oneounce. 
AST ONY ig aac 44a ere a ee wih eparecive, SUSIE 
MEH Ga OD Orin eee ora oy pie sBe ees .. Half ounce. 
CES ge AS ee wee eee LR Quarter oz. 
Crush the root, and put in a clean enamelled or tin-lined sauce- 
pan ; simmer ten minutes. strain and press through a fine 
cloth; sweeten with lump sugar. Guvea teaspoonful six times 
a day every two or three hours. if very bad, two hours. Pour 
out some of it, say the half, into which put a teaspoonful of 
borax. Mix well, and puta piece of soft cloth round the fore- 
finget. Dip it in the wash, and rinse out the mouth several 
times a day. Keep the child warm, clean. and in ordinary 
cases nature will do the rest. If the case is a severe one, it 
will be needful to give the infant emetic syrup to cleanse the 
stomach, then the soothing syrup. If, however, the first 
directions are attended to, there will be little fear of it 
becoming fatal. 
HICCOUGH. 
Wherever hiccup or biccough is found, the mother should 
examine carefully the condition of herself. It has its origin in 
Many CAUSES. Sometimes it arises from an impurity of the 
milk, at others from acidity of the infant’s stomach, or 
whenever the mother suffers from indigestion, or has taken 
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