| Show SOME USEFUL HINTS THE following is from the now new york recorder every mother of little children choul I 1 be to a certain extent her own ova family physician A woman posse possessed few of an average share of common sense can hardly nurse one or boce children through the disorders incident to babyhood and childhood with out acquiring a good stock of information as to how to treat attacks of slight indisposition her domestic practice should however be restricted to the administration of toe simplest remedies see of external applications and 0 of event ves rather than professed aures ires her knowledge should stand ator r in good stead in emergencies and yet JW be tempered with the judgment abut will direct her bar to call in a afan n at the least menace of serious ekness A child be so closely watched ty the mother that no derangement of ate system may escape her notice natice she gouid uld ascertain for herself that all its ita functions are in proper working adder her trained touch should note i lb alp a moment any unusual heat beat or X of the childs body the dry r us ues tf of the skin the over quickness of the pulse she should learn to know at AV y t glance whether the throat and tongue are in their normal condition and her Z oar ear should be schooled to detect the difference between natural and labored or shortened respiration A fever ther as tt kometer ometer should be in every family medicine chest and the mother should understand how bow to take the childs temperature and thus make herself r absolutely sure whether the patient is feverish or not even when the symptoms t bams are such as to cause alarm a not always at band and A lu apon 13 the mother there devolves the 8 harge arge of the little one Afew A few general to as to simple modes of treatment wy not be amiss some children have a to tendency u toward croup that manifests manifesto itse Kae night approaches in i n feverish ness hoarse ess and a barking cough such must not be disregarded y the e chirpe 0 feet must be well heated beffre toe fore it goes to bed its chest cheat rubbed with oil and covered 1 frith a bit of red flannel spread with vaseline baseline aconite maybe may be given at the wate fate of half a drop in a teaspoonful of water every half hour for three or four closes if the cold to is a fresh one this may check it and produce a gentle perspiration ration when the unpleasant symptoms remain fifteen drops ol 01 arup rup of ipecac may be given every twenty minutes until the hoarseness to is relieved Veli eved or the child vomits should the little one waken suddenly from beep leep with a hoarse cough and tight med ened breathing a teaspoonful of ipecac containing so as much powdered alum I 1 J to can be heaped on a silver dime may adlay be administered if the child does net just vomit within half an hour the tose may be repeated A bath in water of about ninety five degrees degre esis is i of course excellent in croup as an in r congestion eon or convulsions croupy abi lareD should be kept housed while there is melting snow on the ground the rhe snow air otten often affects them even then thed and makes thaws anxious sea sons ons for mothers slight bowel troubles can usually be Kegu regulated better by diet than by drugs children suffering with looseness of the bowels should be fed with boiled malir boiled rice arrowroot jelly rice floii iffour porridge por ridges sago or tapioca and soft toast raw fruit and sweets should be especially avoided the regimen to is not mot severe and is more attractive than dosing closing children tendency is in the opposite direction should have a laxative diet consisting of oatmeal hominy mush w wheaten beaten griep baked 1 potatoes D beef juice apple sauce etc su ugar gar of milk may be added to the lood as a gentle corrective a teaspoon ful three times timea a day usually being enough to produce the desired effect pain in the stomach or bow botelo elit or colic is so go varied in its ito manifestations that it in ig hard to lay jay down any fixed rule rifle of treatment if the colic springs from acidity a teaspoonful teaspoon lul of lime water or a pinch of of soda eoda dissolved in a little water will often relieve the patient where there is any inclination to sourness of stomach lime water should always be added to the milk which a child drinks for pain in the bowels a teaspoonful of anise cordial mixed with a teaspoonful of hot water often produces a happy eff effect beet flannes flannels dipped in hot spirits and wrung out may be lau IWA on the bowels of the sufferer and frequently prove very soothing I 1 in n sharp harp pain laudanum may be added to to the spirits an old fashioned spice plaster is an excellent remedy it is made by a heaping teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon cloves and at al spice with two of ginger the mixture I quilted between two thickness of red vannel annel about eight inches long by six wide the plaster may be applied dry or dipped in boiling alcohol and laid on the little patients abdomen as hot as he can bear it in cases of weakness of the bowels this plaster may be worn orn constantly with benefit the enumeration of such remedies might be increased indefinitely they will suggest themselves to every thoughtful mother |
