Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-04-19
MEDICAL TREATMENT or chill
DREN.

D8ES.
II parents would study into and famil.
iarize themselves a little more with the
nature OF the various diseases and com.
plants to which their children are
liable. and not rely so much upon sooth-
ing sirups. physic and pills, there would
be not only less mortality among the
little ones. but children generally would
grow up with far better physical and
mental organism. The first idea
with most parents. in case OF q com.
planning child. is to "give 1t something
in the shape Of medicine. and the poor
little sufferer 10 at opcs forced to take
some internal drug that happens to be
hAndiest. when probably all 1t needed
was q warm bath or . hot lemonade. It
Is perfectly natural for ignorant or in
eIpsr fenced parents. when their child
is taken suddenly i'll. to dose IL with
some kind Of soothing sirup." patent
medicine or popular drug nostrum forth.
with. and as . last resort. when the little
one Is dying. not from the disease. but
the treatment. send post.haste for q
doctor. The most sensible course would
have been not to NEEDLE with what they
knew nothing about. but 10 send imme-
diately for somebody that did know
something.
Some parents are always dosing their
children. sick or well. under the impress
sion that the juvenile human system 70.
quires some kind OF medicine ct all
times. Such children are never well.
In . Western town, where diphthsria pre-.
vailed very extensively q few months
ago. a prominent druggist sold large
quantities Of . remedy which proved
very ~sficacious. Thinking that such a
successful curative agent should be also
a successful preventive. he administered
1t to his own children every day for sew
eral weeks. The last cases Of the dis.
eass were in his own family. Two Of
his children were attacked with 1t and
died. They had become so accustomed
TO the remedy as . preventive that its
powers a. o curative failed when the
dread disease took command. and
death speedily called them away.
Thus. too. where children are continually
dosed with Group medicines BY over.
anxious parents. they are the surest TO
die with ii when attacked. Never try TO
prevent disease by the habitual use Of
medicine. Try by some other and more
natural means to keep children in
health.
The Pharmaceutical Journal records q
case in which q popular "soothipg
sirup'' caused the death OF an infant.
The child 70 Ave months old. and
supposed to be tsething. Its mother
purchased q bottle OF Mrs. VIM
slows soothing strip" aud admins
tered ten drops Of 1t about twice y
day for three days. On the night
Of the third day the child died
very suddenly from the effects OF
the medicine. The coroner said the
effects Of Miss winslow's soothing
strip" were those Of q narcotic. and that
the Pharmaceutical Journal Of 1872
stated that two doses Of 1t had caused
the death Of q child fifteen months
old. with all the symptoms Of
narcotic poison. Analysis OF this sirup
showed that one ounce Of IL contained
nearly q grain Of morphine. with
other opium alkaloids. at Is not sur.
prising." he adds, "thAt it should
sometimes prove fatal to infants In
small doses" The Scientific Amer.
ican. commenting on the above cases
Of soothing strip" poisoning. says;
ct is sale to say. however. that this
will prove no warning; and that moth.
srs will 80 on just the same. SIMPLIFYING
their infants with Godirey's cordial and
patent medicines like the winslow
nostrum; and the practice will cease.
perhaps. ON the same day in the dim
future in which the housskeeper aud the
average servant girl learn that benzine
and kerosene are not proper Substitutes
for paper aud wood in kindling the
kitchen fire."