The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-01
Some Interesting Facts that May Open the
Eyes Of UnwarY Parents.
New York sun.

New York sun.
Recently a correspondent of the Sun
called attention to practice in which
some coachmen have been detected in
saving themselves trouble by dosing
spirited horses with narcotics. A reput-
able physician with whom a reporter
conversed on the subject, said: "When
child is cross, peevish, fretful, rest
less and troublesome, it is not an unus-
ual thing for physician to be called,
who prescribes quoting powder
The nurse is sent 10 the drug store with
the prescription, is told how to admin
lister 1t and in short time, instead of
having very wearisome and irritating
duty to perform, the nurse finds out
that all she has TO do is TO sit by and
watch drowsy child. The lesson is
not forgotten by the nurse. She is
known at the drug store; she knows the
number OF the prescription, she knows
that she can buy ii for few cents, and
she therefore possesses herself Of the
sleeping powder, TO be used whenever
she wants TO have an easy job.
Wealthy parents think they can shift
their duties and responsibilities by hir-
ing servants to perform them. Itlooks
80 easy, and seems such perfect meth
cd Of avoiding the annoyance, the Sleep
less nights, tie wear and tear OF the
system which Is almost inseparable
from faithful attendance upon the heal
thiest child
'But there are very many nurses now
who know how TO make paregoric, laud-
anum, hydrate of choral, or morphine
do the work of patient watching and as
siduous care. The result is that child.
rem grow up stupeiied under the infu-
ence of drugs, with their mental facul-
ties impaired, and with taste for slim
ulants that often leads them to drunk
ards graves. No children are so for.
tunate as those Of the moderately we'll
oil persons who have means sufficient TO
aid them in the drudgery of household
cares, but who give TO their children
that personal care, that thoughtful SUI
peryision, and that conscientious devo-
votion TO duty that can never be bought
with money, but are fondly forthcoming
from affection. There are also many
mothers who do not scruple to tighten
their cares by substituting drugs for du-
ty. The drug stores do lively trade
in various nostrums with fancy names
which are simply well-known narcotics
in disguised form. Opium is the COM
monest ingredient The amount Of this
stuff that is sold is absolutely frightful.
1t is bought and administered by parents
and nurses utterly ignorant of its dele
terious effects. 1t produces disorders of
the Digestive organs, constipation, and
long train of successive ills.
what is the tremedyP Intelligent
parents must not either use these per-
nicious drugs nor permit them to be
used with their children. Strict watch
must be kept for symptoms that will be-
tray the surreptitious use of the drugs.
Thus only can agrowing evil be stopped
which threatens to inilict serious dam.
age on the rising generation. If a child
which is generally noisy, boisterous and
lively, suddenly becomes drowsy, dull
and stupid, it is at least fair subject fol-
inquiry whether the cause may not be
found in the neighboring drug store.
"The fact is there ought to be some
way of preventing the use of old pre-
scriptions. At present, when prescrip'
ton has been once filled at drug store
there is no trouble in getting it renewed
without the orders of a physician. There
is also very loose method of selling
narcotics in most Of our drug stores
which is a crying evil. Physicians ar
made responsible for much evil that oc
ours from tho amateur practice OF medi
cine. Parents are too often in the habi
Of using old prescriptions when tn
symptoms of disease resemble that 10
which the prescription was original
given. This is playing with fire with
vengeance.