DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 805 
years the mixture may be strengthened by the addition of one 
ounce of tincture catechu. Should the disease have 
passed into its third stage it will not be safe to give the 
emetic, as the exhaustion may be too great. 
Prepare a medicine thus:—Burnet herb, half an ounce; 
infuse in half a pint of water 15 minutes to half an hour, strain, 
sweeten with lump sugar, and add tincture of cranesbill root 
two teaspoonfuls, or cholera drops one teaspoonful. Give in 
small doses every half hour or 15 minutes. While this 
medicine is preparing we would recommend (if the child is not 
tuo far gone), a bath of slightly tepid water, about 
65 degrees, the chill only taken off; immerse the child up to 
the neck, now pour on its head cold water as it comes from 
the tap in ordinary weather for two or three minutes. The 
child may gasp, but it will do good. Take it out of the bath, 
wipe dry, wrap in warm flannel, and give the medicine. The 
above treatment modified is strongly urged by Dr Skelton, 
whose experience was as vast as his practice was successful. 
He warns parents or practioneers not to sit doubting, nor 
listening to the croaking of foolish people, but to begin at 
once and use these harmless and effective remedies. Dr 
Coffin’s mixture for this, and the milder forms of the trouble, 
is as follows :— 
Turkey Rhubarb Root ............ Quarter ounce. 
Cinnamon Bark ......, soveeeeess Quarter ounce. 
SPC Weiler A. eats eka ep tL, ke Quarter ounce. 
Peruvian Bark .|. 0 8 Jae eee. . Quarter ounce. 
Boil in a quart of water twenty minutes, strain, add half a 
pound of lump sugar, cool, and give from a tea to a table- 
spoonful every two or three hours, according to symptoms. 
We know of this mixture saving a child’s life in Dunedin, 
after a doctor said it would die soon. 
CYNOSIS, OR BLUE DISEASE. 
This is a rare trouble, but it may happen at any time, 
therefore we may be justified in giving its Symptoms, causes, 
and treatment. While the child is in the womb there is an 
