The daily gazette., 1883-07-19

spoonful or more of the milk, according +
the age of the child. Should this disagree
teaspoonful of arrow root or sago, o.
corn starch may be cautiously added to
pint of the milk, as prepared under rule
If milk IN any shape cannot be digested try
for few daysp pure cream diluted with three
fourths or four hfths of wa'er-returning tc
milk as soon as possible.
Rule 10. The nu sing bottle must be kept
perfectly clean, otherwise the milk will turn
sour, and the child will be made Ill. After
each meal 1t should be enptied, rinsed out,
taken apart, and the nipple and bottle placed
in clean water, or in water to which little
soda has been added. 1t is good plan to
have two nursing g-bottles, and to use them
by turns. The best kind is the plain bottle
with the rubber nipple and no tube.
Rule IL. Do not wean the child just before
or during the hot weather; nor, as rule,
until after the second summer. If sucking
disagrees with the mother she must not wean
the child, but feed it, in part, out of nurs-
ing bottle, on such food as has been directed
Howaver small the supply of breast milk
provided that 1t agrees with the child, the
mother should carefully keep 1t up against
sickness; it alone will often save the life of q
child when everything else fails. When 8
child is over six months old the mother may
save her strength by giving 1t one or two
meals day of stale bread and milk, which
should be presse through a sieve and put
into a nursing bottle. When from eight
months to year old it may also have one
meal day of the yolk of a fresh and rare
boiled egg, or one of beef, or mutton broth
into which stale bread has been crummed.
When older than this it can have little
meat finely minced; but even then milk
should be its principal food, and not such
food as grown up people eat.
BRIEF RULES FOR CASES OF EMERGENCY.
Rule /. If the child is suddenly attacked
with vomiting, purging and prostration,
send for doctor at once. In the meantime
put the child for few minutes In hot
bath; then carefully wipe it dry with warm
towel and wrap 1t in warm blankets. If its
hands and feet are cold, bottles filled with
hot water and wrapped in flannel should be
laid aginst them.
Rule Q: A mush poltice, or one made OF
flaxseed meal, to which one quarter part OF
mustard flour has been added, or fiannels
wrung out of hot vinegar and water, should
be placed over the belly.
Rule 8. Five drops of brandy in a tea
spoonful of water may be given every ten
or Is minutes; but if the vomiting persists,
give the brandy in the same quantity oi
milk and lime-water.
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if it is caused by improper rood, teaspoon
full of castor oil, or of the spiced syrup O.
rhubarb should be given.
Rule 5. If the child has been fed partly
on the breast and partly on other food, the
mothers milk alone must now be used II
the child has been weaned 1t should have
it's milk-food diluted with lime water, OF
should have weak beef tea or chicken
water.
Rule g. The child should be allowed tc
drink cold water freely.
Rule Z. The soiled diapers or the dis
charges should be at once removed from thu
room, but saved for the physician to exam
| inc at his visit.