Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-07-09
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
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Hot Weather.

lQUueuCeS. Lie llucOus tueluUIdue VI
the food canal sympathizes strongly
with the skin. Exposure to extremes
of heat or cold of the one is felt more
or less directly by the other. Hot
temperatures do more ham than cold.
Clothing enables children to endure
the cold and keep the inner organs in
a healthy state. So we will direct
our thoughts to the influence of ex,
cessive heat. In hot seasons of the
year the digestive forces are less able
than in cold to execute their special
duty. Even milk passes through the
gastric sack in an nndigested state,
enters and irritates the mucous surface
of the intestines. If the heat con-
tinues long and strong, it may create
a disturbance iu the inner wards that
a mothers love and a physlcian's skill
are quite unable to control. Hot skin,
restlessness by night and dullDess by
day are early indications of coming
trouble-excessive activity of the
bowels, expelling their contents with
more or less rapidity and pain. The
mother may try some things things
that are said TO be good for dlarrh@a.
But if she does not succeed she should
send for her medical attendant, who
ought to come at once aud try to cure
what the mother did not prevent, and
may have caused. He ought to stop
the riot in the stomach and compel oil
things to move down in their wonted
way Vomiting is an indication Of
disease usually irritation of the gas
trio lining. Apply mustard plaster
over the gastric region. Give the
child a few bits of ice, and greatly
lessee the amount and richness of its
food. If the child sucks-it never
nurses-give it two teaspoons of barley
water then let 1t suck, or let the
mother nurse, one quarter part as
much as usual, and not oftener than
every other hour. If the child has
been weaned and has fed on cows
milk, first give it four teaspoons or
more OF cool barley water, and then
give one-quarter part of It's usual
ration.
A coffee made of oats is useful in
disturbance OF the food canal. Scorch
the oats, grind them, pour upon them
cold water, boil the mixture for TWEEN
ty minutes, strain and sweeton. and
aid mite Of salt We have found
this a useful remedy even 10 cholera
infantum.
The curds of cows milk are harder
than those of human mothers. and SO
less dlgestible. But mlngle well in
warm milk small amount of finely
pulyerized starch-ten grains to a
plnt-and the milk will form softer
more porous curds. and so more
easily digesIible. Warm milk digests
more easllyathan cold. If it can be
obtained, give feeble child, whose
stomach cannot DO its proper duty. as
soon as it is drawn, while the natural
warmth remains in the cream globules
are still floating in the mass, the first
mllkings of healthy. well.fcd, sweet.
tempered and kindly>treated cow
living water, very warm, a half hour
or more after moderate feeding OF
COWS milk, will do much towards d.
costing 1t. Warm barley water, also,
given before sucking or feeding, will
aid The digestive forces of the stomach.
AVOID cathartics. If curds are dis,
tnrblng the alimentary caual, give one
teispoonful of warm castor oil in
barley water or other mucilage. II
the eXcretlons of the bowels be acid
and offensive, give borax solution, one
teaspOonful, made by dissolving ten
grains OF borax in ten teaspoonfuls Of
soft water. Give it after each motion
OF the bowels. Increase the dose il
necessary.
Acldlty of the bowels usually arises
from indigestion that may be removed
by giving pepsin and bismuth, two to
TOUR grains each, after each feeding.
Ii the child's mouth is apthous and the
canal region is excOriated, give boraz
solution, two grains after each motion
but not ottener than once in two hours
IT the child still worsens from the
lnhuenee of the disease and La:
become exhausted, give the wine Of
IRON IN teaspoon doses composed o.
The wine Of iron, ten drachms. and
syrup of orange, four drachms. Re-
peat 1t every third hour, if needed
II mucus and blood appear in the
Stools, give warm castor oil in warn
barley water-one-q quarter teaspoon &c
tablespoon after each motion. Add
parsgoric, if needed to lessen pain, Of
check frequent motions.
Avoid charcoal and every Othel
substances that does not dissolve, o.
does not digest. Such medicines dc
much more harm than good. Avoid
calomel. In place of it, give minute
doses of ipecac-aqunrter grain or less
Give it in glycerine, or milk, one
tablespoon. In any stage of The
malady, if the skin be bot OF dry, tn,
child restless and in pain from fat
ulency give it warm blanket bath
A few drops-lour to ten-of spirits
OF turpentine in one teaspoon Of warn
castor oil will give great relief to ;
child suffering from faiulency o.
collie. If the child be exhausted by
the disease or IS likely to be, give
beef and oats coffee, separately, o.
combined. If its stomach will no
bear it, give it by enema, Tablespoon
every other hour. Avoid opium il
all its forms, paragoric, laudanum
morphine, if you can. Bad cases
make it right to do little harm t,
secure greater good. raragOric j:
the best form of opium for children
The camphor in it often lends it great
efficiency. we have found cblOra
hydrate, in minute doses, very useful
1t lessons the restlessness Of the child
and cften induces a quiet sleep. A: