Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-11-25
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be the plum pudding that has disagreed
with him f! Jane bring Dafy! And i
you can't find it in the right hand pantry
shelf, look into the medicine chest for the
Preservatiye. Perhaps the Doctor ISM
at home, and the medicine will do the
child good in the meantime. Quick, Jane
If you can't find Dafy or the Presevative
bring the syrup of Poppies. 3
All you've got Dafy? Now, Jane, a
teaspoon p
You know the opportunity of physick-
ing baby is not to be missed. Medicine
is meant to do children "good, and there
fore it ought to be given. If child cries,
run for the doctor. But sometimes Doc
tors are wanted in two or three places at
once So to provide against the contin-
gcncy, run to the medicine chest for Daf-
fy, popies, or calomel. Give one, all of
them You can watch their effects, and
test the powers of the different medicines,
The child cries It must be III =
Fetch the Elixir! 1t costs only eighteen
pence a bottle,-"a real blessing to moth
ers," ignorant ones especially. Let an
honest individual hint that the child has
eaten too much, and the answer is, "Non-
sense What can you know of that ,
The child is i'll! Any one may see that
with half an eye. Hand over the bottle
and the spoon
d" All here comes, the doctor!" Here
he comes, indeed! "What Is the mat
ter?" "Ah, sir he cries and cries and
cries so, the poor dear must be i'll lH-
".What has he been eating 2" He has
only had some plum pudding, and very
tiny little bit Of cake with comfts, and
an apple, and" "Why the child
has eaten too much - "La, sir, it can't
be; his appetite is remarkably small
quite-quite-quite "Ah, [ see !!
Well, you must wait till morning. We
shall see how he is then" wait, sir
wait. Why the child'S quite i'll! He
must have some medicine" +" The child
is ill-that is true; but it is with overgorg-
ing-medicine would only make matters
worse. Leave nature to relieve herself
lie will be better in the morning" Won't
you give a little Dafy." Oh, rank pois-
on! - What poison? have given it to
him fifty times, and he has always been
the better for it. l have given him some
now" "What? Dafy, plum pudding,
comfts, apples, etc, etc. Why the child
must have had the strength of horse to
survive all that y
Doctors dare not always be honest to
customers else they would oftener speak
out their mind freely, as the honest, but
rather rough doctor did. People will
have physic, what else is the use of doc
tors but prescribe physic for people ,
Mothers think their children are not done
Justice to, unless the doctor is drenching
them with draught, and such like The
doctor may give advice about regularity
of living, and simplicity Of dict but
what does be know Of that? Cooks and
nurses are much more likely to understand
meats-lct the doctors stick to pbysic :
lie may tell the nurse not to bandage the
child tightly, and to avoid pins, but "what
can he know Of child's cloths, or of their
proper fastnings.' No! there is old Bet
ty, the nurse, who is the standard author
ity in all such matters The doctor may
tell the mother to give her children exer-
else; but does not she know better? IF
they scamper about, won't they spoil
their clothes And if the little things
should grow weak, sickly and diseased,
why then the order can be given to run
for the doctor If he tells the housewife
to ventilate the children's sleeping room
to open the doors and windows frequent
", that the thorough draught may blow
through and sweeten the rooms" Oh,
the children will get their deaths Of colds"
And if they should then become pale and
fragile, weakin the chest, and delicate
in the digestion, on the slightest ailment
or trouble, then-run for the doctor =
They had better run for the glazier to put
a. yentilator in the window; or for the
carpenter to bore ventilating holes in the
floor; or, better than all, send the children
out to Doctor Green-felds, and get the