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Show CLAYING WITH DRUGS. ! Th. Pt of A.lml..l.t.rln M..tli " "ho" MedloU Adlc. f?7re r?Uy fLW remedies that It i. safe w adnnniMw wuhout skilled advice, f IT-w Per,' Bazar- aai the , P m, t,R."ly hot oil d ' 17, I t:UC!ura "f rhubarb. W hen a ' b?a MK iu illlcl. food, ' Z'UHr ctlL'-"rT-iou. , or euvms unr,, i rMpbeme.wU0S8laravJ lodp hi U,c . hule iai.ttl.at seems to bo ia thobowoli lorine express purie of making trouble, ; the poor mother-. m-st i(!.eu u tu Kiv0 lt at j once a relieving and disdiaiyhiK rot.on; and lio puts tbs cjliia .,dc. llumeii,aU, i entenca of death in Uoiui? o, the phvsie j hvuiR an iiifl.uuu,u.ry U.nuenoe whieh is ' the vary thing to be avoided. And, on the! other hund, when the cUUd Rive evidece I of a diarrha-ul disorder t,f the bowols, tho ! poor mother Ihe, to her lueuu-ine closet, takes down the pi,u 0f tmxt are, aud ' aUuilros herself for sUippig the itnmediiuo ' symptoms, not knowing tiuu tho fever B!, 1 distress and worse ensuu g svmptomi are ! due to the effort of tt.o chalk mixture, j which prevents the .vmeui from rcliev- 1 inn itself, aud that slits should have Riven instead an unloading and flouring flour-ing doso of castor-oil. That bo la deterred de-terred from giviint tho oil by the diiliculty of making a child swaiiow tho nauseous druagl.t 19 not to be allowed iu her excuse; for the child need not know what i given, and there are many ways of making it tastclets besides that of administering it in capsules; for, when given, beaten up with j the w-hitoof an egg, us if for what is called "egg-nog," with some sugar and a dash f lemon juiee aduod, era drop of essence of peppermint, the child will think it is having some unusual indulgence granted because it does not feel well, remembering to in advantage the old nursery lines; "Oh yen, not well ; you're very sick. I dou't believe it's true. You only want to coax mamma To make nice thing for you." Of course in tho wilderness, on remote farms and suburbs, tho mother of a family must, in spite of any danger from Ignorance, Igno-rance, keep many remedies on hand and administer ad-minister them as best sho can, because a physician is Unattainable there at short notice. But, in that case, as much her duty a. it Is to have the niedieiuos, it is to know how and when to administer thorn; and so the must make her own a suftioiont knowledge of the simpler and more common com-mon ailments to be able to treat them properly prop-erly in their preliminary stages; and this Ought to be as much a part of every girl's education as bread-making, sewing, reading read-ing and the multiplication tablo. But when a doctor is in tno next street or within easy call, and drugs are at hand round the corner, a niuther is wiso who takes no more upon herself in this regard than she can not help, and contents herself until educated help can he had withmaking use of copious draughts of hot water and of soothing sweats. As unw.to as it Is to adinhiistor other medicines iu ignorance, it is to take tho va- nous patent medicines prescribed oy uo one in authority, and conip mnded of no ono knows what those things that are recommended recom-mended for the "blood" tonics, purifiers and universal cure-alls nnule in reality, and as a general thing of tho strongest drugs and tho vilest alcohol, and capable of producing" the worst results in the system, even to the Inflammation of the stomach, the induration of tho liver, the weakening of the heart and the dogonoration of the kidneys, every one of which evils can bo wrought without the patient's knowledge of what is going on mi til the end approaches. I The youth who is "treating" and being treated by his companions, with tho idea thaf be is making a man of himself, I his father, who is taking a "little something" some-thing" for his stomach's sake before dinner, din-ner, are both, even If in perfect health now, doing the same thing for their vital organs that the paten t medicines are doing for those bo are not In perfeol hualth, aj.d both ou-toms ou-toms are the reaultof ignorance, and should be corrected equally. As no one nowadays would think of taking calomel in the huge doses formerly given, and icarve-ly icarve-ly at all without a physician's ordor, and even then, possibly, with some doubt and questioning, bo it tuny come to pass that in time the patent medicine and the un needed stimulant will be looked at with similar distrust and disfavor. If one I is so "poorly" as to feel the need of a stimulant, stimu-lant, which is, after all, of but temporary relief; If one is miserable and does not know what the matter is the only course to be pursued is to call in a practitioner whose business it is to be familiar with such affairs, and who, with patience and obe dionce on the part of the sufferer, will put things into as nearly right shape lis it is' possible they should be. We are apt to say that to call a doctor is to make ourselvos ill, in accordance with the old epitaph begin ning: "I was well; I wanted to be better," forgetting that it would not have occurred to us to call a doctor at all if we had nut been ill already ; and that, at any rate, ono whose business lt is to know, as it is the doctor's, Is more presumably safe in the directing: di-recting: of such affairs than one who, lino ourselves, know nothing about the way in which we are '.o fearfully and wonderfully wonder-fully made. Eternal though the life beyond the Ki'ave, there is but one life here, and that has to be lived In connection with the body; and it would seem that at the slightest slight-est hint of disaster to this so necessary body, we should put the care of ltint itho hands of those most skilled in such matters, and not run the riBk of partin g with it, or of doing it an irremediable damage. |