Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-07-12

much if any avail.
| Success i'll procuring relief for the
sick infant viii depend on the ability
to romove or modify the morbid caus-
cs above stated. For this purpose the
patient should be taken from its clio e
and badly ventilated quarters and al
lowed to breathe a purer and frcsher
air in one or more of our publicsquares
or especially in the park. Hours
should be thus spent daily. Proper
food can be taken by the mother or
nurse for the little one, which may
thus be made to pass almost entire
days in yivifying atmosphere of nit
| igated temperature, and acquire new
life to bear up under the debiliating
effects of the close and often crowded
sleeping-rOoms in courts and alleys, in
which a renewal of air is scarcely OBJ
tainaJlG. Mothers cannot be too much
| impressed with the Importance of
snatching a halfhour even Tor escape
with their children into more open
and cooler quarters. Both as preyen
tive and cure most valuable is the in
halation of the pure air on board the
numerous steamboats,, in crossing or
sailing up and down the Delaware riv-
er. Similarly advantageous, but with
more pleasing scenery, is passage up
and down the Schuylkill, or into the
romantic Wissahickon. Not q little
may be done to diminish and prevent
exhaustion from the extreme heat, by
bathing the infant in water of the riy
er temperature, or that flowing from
the hydrInts, early in the morning,
and in the evening by using the water
foT the bath miikwarm, The bath
should be followed on both occasions
by thorough drying and friction of
the skin.
Continual errors in infantile diet
are committed by parents giving their
children strong, gross food, such as
they use themselves. An attack of
cholera infantum or of diarrhW, is of
ten brought Oh in hot weather by
sudden change of food for the infant,
in substituting for the mothers milk,
as in the process of weaving, the ordi-
nary food of the table, and this in
not always limited quantity. Hence
mothers should not attempt to wean
their children during the summer
months, except under very peculiar
circumstances, and cOunselled by the
physician. The food for child. during
the whole of the summer months, and
indeed at all times, should be milk,
either pure or mixed with farinaceous
articles, such as flour, powdered bis
cult, Indian meal, preparations Of
wheat, rice and arrow-root, in the
shape of pap, puddings, &C., some
times favored with cinnamon, nut
meg and the like. The drink Will be
cool water, and much refreshment
will be procured to the child suffering
from teething, by taking into its mouth
ground ice, which even if swallowed
before tits entirely dissolved, will do
no harm. Gum water, barley water,
and infusion Of different herbs-sage,
balms, &C., may severally be given to
vary the drinks. The extreme irrita-
ton of teething, sometimes causing
commissions, can be relieved by the
physician lancing the gums The
clothing of children in the summer
season should be of light texture, easy
fitting and loose; the inner garment
being of very thin or gauze flannel,
which prevents the heat from being SO
sensibly felt as it would be with diff
ferent kind of garment next to the
skin, and also has the advantage of
preventing chilling of the body after
profuse perspiration or a sudden re-
duction of temperature. A change |
ought to be made, if possible, both |
night and morning. Allparts of the |
body should be protected from the
sun, and hence the Clothing should |
come up. to the neck and-cover the
legs. Instead of the breast and Shout |
ders being left naked to increase the
risk of sudden chill and suppressed |
perspiration, the effects of which, at |
season, will show themselves by |
deranging the stomach and bowels
Exercise, which in the case of
child in the arms must be passive, is
often very serviceable when taken in |
a carriage or the cars. and for the time
being it arrests the disorder Of the
bowels. a still milder movement,
but one not without beneficial results,
is obtained in water-cTaft.
When warning against5theinse of
foods6wt AZ pc suppos-
ed of course to include III the prohibit
ton All unripe fruits, which not UNI
act as a sure poison when
taken into the stomach OF sick or
even merely,delicate child. The. case
;sz3i fFara,st with ripe fruits and that
which has heem Subjected to CULINARY
process by baking or stewing, n pop
Mar remedy for infahfile@ 6larrhea is
found ina syrup oefu aeWberries sEorOj
lsf1be great estnumber of
children suffering and dying from
cholera. infantumlate found under the
circumstances of liv-
inc to- which we acivertedi7 but it
would be a great mistake TO supposed
HAT there is any class exempt. from its
infections. The children of the
wealthy. living in spacious apartments
md lin tie enjoyment of ACCOMPANY
lively pure air in gardens and other
often pay their tax, 80 far
lie summer is passinron without ma
nv Victims being sacrificed TO this dis I
,ase. but still there is ali increase from
week to week two deaths in thesone
ending June four in the term ending