The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

should Ec followed on both occa-
sions by thorough drying and Eric-
ton of the skin.
Continual errors in infantile dict
are committed by parents giving
their children strong, gross food,
such as they use themselves. An at
tack OF cholera infantum or OF diar-
rhoa, is often brought ON in hot
Gather by sudden change OF food
for the infant, in substituting for the
mothers milk, as in the process OF
weaving, the ordinary food of
the table, and this in not always linz
itod quantity, Hence mothers should
not attempt to woan their children
during the summer months, except
under very peculiar circumstances,
and counsolledby tho physician. Tho
food for n child during the whole Of
the summer months, and indeol al
all times, should be milk, either puro
or mixed with iarinaccous articles,
ruch rs flour, powdered biscuit, In
dian meal, preparations of wheat,
rice and arrow-root, in the shape OF
zap, puddings, &c, sometimes flaw
orod with cinnamon, nutmeg and the
like. The drink will be cool water,
and much refroshmont will be pro-
cured to the child suffering from
toething, by taking into its mouth
ground ice which, even if swallowed
before it is entirely dissolved, will do
mo harm. Gum wator, barley watcr
and infusion of different hcrbs--saGe,
balms, &C., may soverally be given
to vary the drinks. The extreme il
ritation of toething, sometimes caua,
ing commissions, can be relieved by
the physician lancing tho gums. The
clothing of children in the summer
season should be of light texture,
easy fitting and loose; tho inner gar
ment being of very thin or gau@o
flannel, which prevents the heat from
being SO sensibly felt as it would be
with different kind ofgNrmentnoXt
TO the skin, and also has the adyan-
taSe Of preventing q chilling Of tho
body after rrofuse pcrspiration or
a ruddon reduction of temperature.
4 change ought to be made, If pos
3iblc, 10th night and morning. All
parts OF the body should be protected
rom the sun, and hence the cloth
ing should come up to the neck and
coyu tho legs, instead of the breast
and shoulders being left naked to
ihe ri4k Of a sudden chill
and suppressed perspiration, the ei-
fecta OF which, mt this season, will
show th msolvcs by doranging tho
stomach and bowels. Exercise,
which in the case of child in the
arms must be passive, is often very
whom taken in II carriage
or the cars, and for tho time being it
arrests the disorder Of the bowels
A still milder movement, but one
not without beneficial results, is OBJ
iaincd in wStor-cNlt.
When warning against the use Of
indigcstiblo food, we might be sup
posed, Of course, to include in tho
prohibition of unripe fruits, which
AOt unfrcquontly act as q sure poison
when taken into the stomach of
sick or evon merely delicate child.
The case is different with ripe fruits
and that which has been subjected
20 culinary process by baking or
'tewing. A popular remody for in
'antilo diarrhea is found in n syrup
# dcwberrios or of blackberrios. The
5roatost number of children suffer
ng and dying from cholera intantum
rc found under the disadvantage
)us circumstances OF living to which
We have adycrtod; but it would be
great mistake to suppose that there
8 any class exempt from its inlllc-
,ious. Tho children of the wealthy
living in spacious apartments and i'll
hc enjoyment OF comparatively
'ure air in gsrdenand other grounds
,ften pay their tax. So far the sum-
ner is passing on without many VIC
inns being sacrificed to this disease,
,ut still there is IN increase from
week to week; two deaths in the ono
,nding June 3; four in the term end
ng June 10; ten in that which end
ID June II, and thirty-nine last week.
We can hardly hope, as the atmos-
,hero becomes more oppressive and
he mir in crowded parts OF the city
more impure, that cholera infantum
will not contine to exhibit rising
lgures.