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Show CRIES OF SICK BABIES. How Mothers May Interpret Meaning of Different Sounds. Very few mothers know the meaning of the different sounds made by their little ones. Dr. West, in the "Health Journal," tells what they are and how limn iuwww.jLiii .pjinm wi i i m wmmmfmrnvvmm ,.iuiin .m ipuui m hw.wiiiiihijih to read them-. He says that the signs of disease differ as well according to the ape of the child as according to the disease from which it is suffering. Cries are the only language whicn a young baby has to express its distress, as smiles and laughter and merry antics an-tics tell, without a word ,of its gladness. glad-ness. The baby must be ill, as all its cries tell one person: another, who has seen much of sick children, will gather from them more, and will be able to judge whether its suffering is in the head, or chest, or stomach. There is, then, a language in the cry of an infant in-fant which, to a mother, is the most interesting of all languages, and which a thoughtful medical man will interJ pret. The cry of a child, to an experienced ex-perienced doctor, is each and all a distinct dis-tinct sound, and is as expressive as the notes of the gamut. The cry of passion, for instance, is a furious cry. The cry of sleepiness is a drowsy err. The cry of grief is a sobbing cry. The cry of an infant when roused from sleeii is a shrill cry. ( The cry of hunger is very characteristic character-istic it is unaccompanied with tears, and is a wailing cry. The cry of teething is a fretful cry. The cry of pain tells to the practiced ear the part of pain. The cry of earache is short, sharp, piercing and decisive, the head being moved from side to side and the little hand being often put up to the affected side of the head. The cry of the bow elache is also expressive ex-pressive the cry is not so piercing as that from earache, and is an interrupted, interrupt-ed, straining cry. accompanied with a drawing of the legs to the abdomen. The cry of croup is hoarse and rough and ringing, and is so characteristic that it may be called the "croupy cry." The cries of the baby with tne stomachache stom-achache are long and loud and passionate: passion-ate: it sheds a profusion Of tears: now stops for a moment, then begins again, drawing up its legs to its stomacn. and as the pain passes off stretches them out again, and with many little sobs passes off into a quiet little sleep. |