The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-31
Summer-Cemplnint.

The time Of year has come when adults
and children will have dia,rhea. | say will
have it, because they will live so badly as
to have it. If they wish not to have it, it
is not difficult to avoid it. will give them
the following formula, to keep it off and
will guarantee that it will prove effective
in every instance if thoroughly followed.
FOR ADULTS.
LIST. Whatever your calling, do not begin
your days work till sunrise, and be sure
to quit at or before shutdown, working
harder before 8 p. NJ, than after that hour.
2nd Eat no salt meat, and fresh meat
but once a day, and this always at break
fast.
Sd. Let all green Vegetables except peas
and beans alone.
4th. Eat plenty of ripe small fruits,
more at dinner or supper than at breakfast.
9th. Eat but little butter-and this as
free from salt as possible and have it rel
ishable, and pcrsstently avoid spices.
9th. Drink no spirituous liquors in any
form, and if tea and coffee are to be drunk
let either be used only at breakfast. The
bowels can be kept vastly healthier without
either of these beverages.
9TH. If costiveness is habit, tepid water
injections are far better than any purga-
tiyes. Take these when the stomach is full
because ones bowels are much more apt to
be active when the stomach being full
presses from above downwards than when
it is empty. llE a.At .lA LII .eltf
Sth. Keep the skin clean by at least tri-
weekly ablutions. '4 e.alit 2 +tAi'
9th. Eat very light suppers-none at all
would be far better, once used to two
meals a day--and let your food be of I'M
leavened bread and skinned milk with
fruit. NtHf ~
FOR CHILDREN. fse
Ia Feed no meat, nor butter, nor salt if
YOU can induce them cheerfully to go with
out the latter-the value of salt is greatly
oyer-estimated, the righteousness of it very
much underestimate, as regards children.
.isa (D Keep them on unleavened bread, ripe
fruits, cream and sugar, and good fresh
milk. ktaA4 5Ef H4-
(c) Keep away all Vegetables but pease,
beans. and old (not new potatoes, and not
much Of these. Bread and milk and ripe
small fruits constitute healthy and nutri-
iious diet for children.
(d) Never let them Gf over year old)
cat more than three times in twenty-iour
hours and on no account of unripe fruits
unless cooked. All between meal eating
should be absolutely foregone.
M (e) Do not study them too hard. All
!, schools Tor children should have vacations
from middle Of June till first of September
: If the season is hot, till the middle or
) last of that month.
"N IN Put them to bed early, and be GER
3 tain that they never go to bed uEhap-
II py. IF anything has occurred to make
Al frlx
ed, take the cause away. A bur-
densome grief will disturb the nervous sys-
TEN of child so as to bring on great irri-
tation of the bowels. ,lrislEll ~
,ee [g) Every child of two years Of age and
upwards should have a bath at least twice
week. If dirty, every other day, and in
some instances every day. ~.
! ~ Children should be clothed warmly,
especially on the legs. Girl-children are
very much overlooked in this matter.
Delicate children with bare legs oftentimes
in the ,iewy mornings and evenings of June
I'd and July get chilled in their extremities,
and diarrhea not infrequently very severe,
is the consequence. s
ID Have children retire early and get up
not too early, and have their sleeping rooms
well ventilated. Do not let them lie crowd
ed, say three or four in bed.
Take care of children and they will not
he sick. Suppose however they are and
with Summer Complaint, then what shall
be done
.e,GttlHI ga TREATMENT.
ROY !. The first thing to be done is to give
an injection of water up the bowel say at
80 to So making the bowel take all it
cal, and hold it comfortably.
2. This done give the patient half bath,
q towel bath or hand-washing all over in
water at 90 to 100 degrees, then at S5 to y
degrees for minute each. Wipe dry, rub
well, and then
3. Put bowel bandagc on, wet all round
if the weather is hot, covered by q dry
bandage, then put patient to bed.
A recumbent posture is abso-
futely necessary to certain re-
coyery from any form of diarrhea that
81 is b more than of one stools duration.
Do not overlook this.
a. give the patient no food for twenty
four to thirty-six hours, and then under no
consideration any of any kind that is solid.
% All nutriments should be liquid, and the
Z best in the world is skinned milk boiled
Q into Cruel made of unbolted wheat -four
and then strained through gauze mus
Z lin or any other coarse fabric that
will keep back the eoarser bran parti-
cles. no not salt this Cruel but if desired
lftby the patient put a little white sugar in it
e only a little, mind And give it by tea
spoonfuls till half a tea cup is taken,
d wait till half an hour has passed and then
+ give as much more, and then once in six to
eight hours give a tea cup full, but no solid
food. y
g ,5, 5. After each movement of the bowels