Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-05-10

Tue CARE OF CHILDREN WITH REFERENCE TO PREVENTING
TAR FATALITY SCARLET FEVER the scarlet fever
il one of fatal diseases children which prevails
in our land the anguish Of toe many parents hearts tes
tfy Anything them which guard the little from
its fatal effects will be gladly embraced and cheertuy re-
The most fatal point of attack of this disease is first the
throat and second the air passages and lungs When gen.
ra disease of kind is received into the SYSTEM To-
Gates upon the weakest parts. Scarlet fever being in
fmmaory disease of the skin, and the lining membrane of
the throat passages and lungs being continuation
part the skn Unnecessarily attacks these If any part of
This membrane too weak to withstand the attack, and
throw it off by what physicians call desquamation the
brane uceraes III patches and the child dies The
brane lining the threat almost always the first point of at
tack from the fact that this is usually weakest in Children
and able withstand the disease. Anything, then
which is ca cuaed TO strengthen and tougher this mem
braue the membrane lining the air passages and lungs
uated to enable the child to Withstand the attack Of
syar.et fever.
TO do this we must commence when the child is born
The drnkthe very first drink it receives into its mouth
unless its mothers milk, should be cold water lis food
should be enti ell drawn from its mothers breast if posi-
b if not should be composed of healthy, fresh cows
milk one-thrd water, sweetened with pure white sugar
The child should also be suffered drink all the cold
will take. The spue, red gum and chldren's mouth
debility of the membranes OF the throat and air
ages and renders them mere liable TO die from scarlet fever
Cola waertreey and frequently given Of the best pre-
yenves Of and remedies for those ntantile diseases.
The best means of strengthen ng and toughening those
by frequent washngs of the neck throat and
with cold water onay using soap, and wpng
and eyeUDg-and If three times day the better
These wasngs should be done with after
the child lew days old. 1t sAJud always be cold water
the better.
The third best of accomplishing this object is by
the Tie chest should be lightly clothed with flannel,
and the neck the chest and head be entirely exposed
to the air III weather and when in the house in win
ter. The and legs should go uncovered This
the boOd TO IeCede f0m them gather in too large
quantities around the hroa and chest producing unnatural
enlargement OF the glands and other tissues there and
ing correspond ng debility and liability to disease
The next best means Of strengthening these membranes
Cden IS free to the air, and by inducing them
exercise their lungs snd throat by ggglng, laughing
growing, crylg, every possible. Laugh
spends day without the the other cannot be
strengthens tOUgheI the organs necessary to be
STRENGTHENED to guard them against the fatal influence OF
scarlet
The way give children exercise and air. whether they
five days five years DID, take them into the open
anOt to let the air blow them, but take them into It,
and have the pure air Of heaven all around them. When
thus exercised expos their feet legs and arms should
be warmly clad but their head face neck and shoulders
exposed freely The air. You cannot should not pre-
vent the cold air from being breathed into the lungs This
absolutely necessary to strengthen them IT yOu at the
same ume let the air OF the temperature have free
cess TO the skin OF the chest neck and throat you prevent
their taking cold.
The simple which we have now enumerated can be
applied and used by every mother and If they
Used and apple directed above by all the mothers and
nurses our land they will preyeOt the scarlet fever from
becoming fatal III thousands of where it otherwise
would These applicable part of the
country as to another and to rural districts as well as tc
cites This fatal disease prevails in all these localities
without reference to class circumstance of e and these
preventive should be resOrted to by a-kE paper