| Show I 1 A ward WORD TO MOTHERS wo 0 have experienced many miny changes in the weather during the present season but since july set in wo we have had some very liot lot days july is the month when mothers usually experience a grout great deal of anxiety concerning their children many of whom have suffered redin in past years from summer complaints 0 from the effects of which great have died although the death rate among our infantile population is not as great as it is in tile largo cities of the batt E ast still it is more than enough and has caused sorrow and mourning in many households the death rate among children under one year of age in one large eastern city is said to bo be twenty five per cent t of the total mortality it is stated on good authority that during the tile month of july over 1000 of these those little ones die in philadelphia and what is more fearful to contemplate in this connection is that they du do not die of the diseases with which they are or aro are supposed I 1 to be afflicted but their death is caused by forcing into their systems soothing soot liing syrups and other otier filthy no strums it is stated by ono one of the med medi cal faculty that between 1500 and 2000 small children die annu annually rilly in philadelphia of symptoms which arc are classed either as cholera tum convulsions or inflammation of the bowels and in a large num berof such cases it is believed that the real cause of death can be traced to the frequent use of preparations of opium it is estimated that in one city alone the city of brotherly love there are tire five hundred stores where on an average are sold fifty battles per week of carminative compounds making a total of bottles battles of villainous stuffs which are dosed into as man many y infantile stomachs stomy in an article published on this subject in the philadelphia times the writer says carminative medicines include not only aro matics like camphor peppermint and lavender but also such as V paregoric and other preparations of opium that have somnolent effects As a rule rein edies are not knowingly used by intelligent and educated parents although there are numerous instances of their surreptitious use by nurses on occasions when they i find tho the children very or when they are anxious to take their weir evening out these nostrum no strums 3 which are vended bended by so many quacks wha who perambulate the country arc are repudiated by byall all respectable intelligent physicians dr john T meigs who is a leading authority on childrens disease diseases hag has emphatically forbidden the use of these compounds among his patients dr aleiss says they are all poisons of more or less potency they disorganize the bys demare unfit for patients of such tender years and the fact that they aye are and ignorantly administered makes the matter worse I 1 would warn every one f from roin using any of them under any circumstances their use uso is always attended with danger and the children survive a they very often never recover from the disastrous results which follow them through life dr W R S blackwood an attending physician at a large hospital a says ho be has had twenty cases where death was caused to his pos ilive knowledge by soothing y syrup jn in england the feeling has beo boo come almost universal against the yusoof use of these kicas of medicines in some parts of this country the syrup has gone out of use but it has been succeeded by a mixture called cough syrup dr blackwood says be he has known this cough cough syrup to kill he says two teaspoon teaspoonfuls fulls is the ordinary dose and in my opinion anyone who gives it bendan endangers g ers the life of tho the child it is given by mothers to their children for almost every ailment a ii because they find it quiets them most effectually the doctor says also whatever the temporary benefit it may be the tho consequences arc always bad children who are given these p preparations ard ions if they live become weak ings pallid and ill formed and I 1 am sure that a great many mental and physical defects and disturb ances attributed to hereditary taints from parents aro are nothing more than results of opium poisoning PO 0 these arc are verified by I 1 the testimonies of dr ina M allara and other eminent physicians who condemn in the strow strongest cat terms the tile use of tho the various cordials cordiali cor dials and other compounds given by mothers to their children dr taylor is consi considered dereda a high authority in in medical edical jurisprudence hero is his testimony infants and young per persons are liable to bo be killed by very small doses of opium and appear to bo be particularly susceptibly to tho tile effects of this ply poison y the syrup of pop poppies ples paregoric are zoric elixir God ireys co cordial and X dalbys carminative Cannin aliv e owe their narcotic effects to the tile presence of opium M mrs rs wins whis lowa Koo thing sarup appears to boa bra C compound resembling syrup of pop pica tiles its effects are those of oan it narcotic two doses of this caused the death of a it child aged fifteen months with the syrup symptoms toms of narcotic pois poisoning clahar ta llie e ana analysis lysis of this syrup shows that ono ounce of it contained nearly one orie gram grain of iner morphia phia with other opium alkaloids phar journal 1871 it is not ritt surprising that it should prove fital fatal to infants in small doses A number of medical authorities i arc are quoted by the writer of the article in the times among whom are standard german encyclopedia clo of the practice of madi medicine dr win V lZ eating physician to an alms house the latter gentleman says tho tile whole of these nostrums strums no arc poisonous and arc are constantly destroying childrens liv lives dr meigs thinks a great deal of this fatality is the result of poverty and ignorance 6 he ile says take a poor woman with five or six children whose husband is earning a day and who possibly lips to work herself sho she lias has no time to attend to an ailing child she may not riot have the means to call in a physician it its crie sand suffering and fretting a annoy or perhaps distress her and the few spoon spoonfuls als of tho tile cheap nostrum corner druggist becomes an easy and buro sure solution of her troubles then the child bickens and dies and that is the end of it there arc are but few if any of tho the mothers in this place reduced to such necessity they have plenty of time to attend to their brings and if they have not the means required fl for or their proper sustenance and nourishment they can be easily oll ou bained by making known their necessities I 1 if their children arc are sick and need medical aid their parents ca can n obtain the services of honest intelligent physicians who have acquired a reputation and built up a b business ifill by their integrity and skill in the community in which they have chosen to reside permanently they will not hazard their respectability and practice by dealing in quackery then let mothers be cautious and as the season advances sec see that their children do not indulge in the consumption of too much ice water and unripe fruits and above all mothers when your children are ailing do not drug k them to death with villainous compounds THE TIM head the bad effect of Golf asa Exa example the N Y sun publishes the following follow itic 0 washington dispa dispatch teb dated ju july 1 y ath which is interesting re reading ailing for the editor of tho the utah commercial and deputy internal I 1 revenue collector the dispatch states that one interesting inte interesting te case ease has just been developed by secretary F olger about ten years ago E G matthews then assessor of internal revenue at denver col was C granted authority to erect a small building on lots owned by the government for use as an office instead of erecting one building he be erected three and rented them all out as stores he ile has bas been receiving rent for tb them em at the rate of about a month ever since since amounting in all to about the matter was brought to the attention of Secretary folger a few fw months ago ago 0 and he at once instituted a an investigation the result is that matthews will be dispossessed of the property in question and tho the rental derived will liere hereafter after be paid into the united states treasury mr matthews is eaid said to be a stepbrother of schuyler colf Colfax ax tau STRENGTH of hoisting cables for mines has been investigated by a french commission greater care is found to be necessary with metallic lic cables than with those of textile materials on account of liability to corrosion and preference is given to the latter for most mines THE for agricultural purposes pu r of the blood of the 0 animals yearly slaughtered in franco france is estimated by a french writer to be francs various methods have been proposed for treating tho the blood so as to prevent 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