DISEASES OF CHILDREN. . . 277 
COLIC, GRIPES, WIND OR FLATULENCY. 
Children are often troubled with gripes, pains in the bowels, 
and wind in the stomach, the causes of which are irritation and 
inflammation. It is generally accompanied with restlessness, 
crying, hiccoug’ drawing the legs up towards the chest, and 
purging of greenish matter. It will be necessary to relieve the 
bowels of the irritation as soon as possible; for this purpose 
give freely of the Soothing Syrup, No. 1, ora medicine made 
as follows :— 
INFANTS’ SOOTHING Syrup, No. 2.— 
PPSATHUEE § 357s ow lean aes cescasvesses FLall Ounce, 
Ladies’ Mantle ...... iteeeteanteaas ce (JUuantemeren 
Cinnamon Powder........ sovccceesess A teaspoonful. 
Pour half a pint of boiling water upon the whole, mix, sweeten 
well with lump sugar, let it stand an hour, strain clear, and 
give a teaspoonful three or four times during the first hour, 
gradually diminishing it as the pains subside. 
If the bowels are swollen and hard, add half a teaspoonful 
of powdered mandrake to the mixture, and prepare with it ; or 
what is better, add a teaspoonful of tincture of mandrake after 
the medicine is prepared. | 
TINCTURE OF MANDRAKE.— 
American Mandrake, powdered.... Quarter ounce. 
GIN PCr, POWCETEG 0 wt nxipne tie Pas . A teaspoonful. 
Put into a wide-mouthed bottle, add four ounces of spirits of 
wine, shake it daily for a week, after which clear it through 
filtering paper, and keep it ina bottle ready for use. 
The mother should bear in mind that as the child receives 
his nourishment from her, its stomach sympathises with every 
thing she takes, and this should induce care and caution in 
the kind of food taken; for where there is disorder in the 
mother, there must also be disorder in the child. 
VOMITING 
Is also very common with infants, and should be 
