Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-16
A FEW WORDS TO MOTHERS.
THE MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN


American mothers know, to their sorrow,
that cholera tntdntum or summer complaint,
is one of the most destructive diseases of our
climate. There is probably no country in
the world where the mortality among chill
dren bears so large q proportion to the sum
total of deaths as in the United States
About one-third of the weekly interments
registered in the city of New-York may be
classed under the head of infant mortality,
and from May to November the majority of
the young children who die are swept off BY
diseases of the bowels. We do not wish to
speak harshly, but it cannot be concealed
that much of this wholesale destruction is
caused by c~arelessness, over-indulgence and
improper treatment. Unripe fruit and other
unwholesome aliment, is generally the pri-
mary cause of summer complaint, and the
administration of drastic purgatives and 9TH
er pernlclous drugs too often lead to fatal
results. Under these circumstances we shall
make no apology for expressing the belief,
that any case Of cholera infantum or diar-
rhea in the adult stage of life, however vio-
lent IN its nature, or whatever its origin, can
be readily cured by Holloway's Pills.
In saying this we are merely repeating, it
is true, the general opinion of the world /;
but in adding our personal declaration to
the great mass of testimony which has been
accommodating during twenty years, we may,
pe~rchance, more Immediately interest our
own circle of readers, than if we confined
ourselves to outside evidence. If but one
mother acts upon the suggestion, and one
child's life is thereby saved, we shall not
have written in vain.
The rapidity with which favorable results
follow the exhibition of this remedy, in all
affections of the stomach and bowels, are just
ly considered phenomena in medical prac-
tice. The scientific explanation of these
phenomena belongs rather to the medical
professor than the editor of a newspaper, and
it has been fully given by the distinguished
inventor himself. Cholera Infantum and its
kindred diseases are caused, Immediately, by
undue irritation of the sensitive membrane
which lines the bowels, and upon that coating
the pill. exercise a most soothing and healing
influence, carrying off, by their mild, ~laxitive
action, all acrid and pungent matter which
produces and aggravates the disease, and in.
MIGRATING the intestinal vessels as well as
assuaging their excited action.
The season when this class Of disorders is
most prevalent is commencing: "forewarned
is forearmed," says the proyerb, and should
our article induce parents to pay more strict
attention to the diet of their children, and tt
adopt the most certain means of cure, in ca.
SEES where bowel complaint has actually sci
in, we shall at least have accomplished som
good. Or. Diet and DR.. Regimen" says q
quaint writer, care the best physicians il
the world; but we must beg leave to place
Dr. Holloway in the SAM category and tt
recommend his pills as the best and safes
medicine, for a complaint which annually
leaves as a token of its ravages, SO many va
can't places by the domestic hearth.-N. o
"ITue Delta"