284 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
Good food, rich in the bone-forming elements, such as oatmeal, 
wheatmeal, beans, marifinila, milk, eggs, &c., exercise in the 
open air, with careful nursing, not allowing the child to stand 
on its legs, if it has this tendency, till it is strong enough to 
support its weight. If there 1s a tendency to bow legs, or to 
become knock-kneed, means ought to be taken to straighten the 
legs by in the first place bandaging them together at bed-time; 
keep the bandage onallnight. Ifknock-kneed use splints put 
outside the legs, and bandage them so as to draw out the 
knees. In the morning a cold bath, with sea or salted water. 
Give it quickly, dry with a moderately coarse cloth. Don’t let 
the children eat all day, but at regular times. Give them 
principally wheatmeal or brown bread and good milk. 
Look well to whatever symptoms are present, and give a 
suitable medicine to regulate the bowels. Forthis purpose the 
soothing syrup and tincture of mandrake, if required, will do. 
For a general tonic we would recommend— 
UAPEEAPMRCOOL. ent cecccy ca rsng. £05 8 a eee ges hee Haif ounce. 
Dandelion Root ....... ea ew le Portes Lea DUCE, 
TIICITIETAS OO 2.0 cu Fee as a cue ca es weceeess Half ounce. 
RGM Soy welsh ks Aaa Aes e pa ee el ee MO MILGE *OGs 
Simmer in one pint; strain, sweeten, and bottle; add half an 
ounce of tincture of orange peel, and two drachms of hypo- 
phosphate of iron, and give from a half teaspoontul to two, 
according toage ; uptoone year, ateaspoonful. Shake up the 
mixture before giving it. Some, realising that rickets are 
always more or less accompanied by weakness of the bones, 
have recommended bone flour, prepared by grinding to the 
finest powder bones well dried. We think it would be well 
to try this remedy ; about a small teaspoonful in the food once 
or twice a day. We keep this in stock. The regular and 
general prescription is the chemical food—the only objection 
to it is the injury it causes to the teeth. 
TEETHING. | 
The development of the teeth is a natural process, and in 
ordinary cases is attended with little or no pain. Some 
