Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

S@fA~ D InrouS
months, years an
lifetimes, sleepless
tireless at heart when the arms fail them
and all for the least able of their flock
Nothing shows the difference between tn
old pagan feeling, worshipful of youth ant
beauty as it was, and the modern belief
than that every man and woman who read
this will feel a touch at heart, which
makes the last sentence superfous and trlte
Two thousand years ago it would not hav
been so. The well and the wise considered
the unfortunate as burdens to be only to-
hastily turned of. The cripples starved o
begged. Their families disowned them, anC
the State condemned them. They coulC
neither fight nor work, so they were throw
to the waves or to wild beasts. The work.
had not begun to learn what a treasure o
brightness may lie in the brain of tn,
hunchback, or what tender attachment re
pays the care of the disabled. The helples
call out such deep, complete tenderness a
renders their service blessing. One sees {
little way into heaven who knows the un
speakable affection of words and looks be
tween parents and sick children.
A PARENTAL MISTAKE.
Who has not seen the unstinted care given
the crippled or half idiot child by somt
hard-working family, the patient saving t.
buy appliances, costly to them, which may
relieve the one for whom the heart is ten.
der, the thought to carry home each treat
for the one who never stirs outside the door
know the wife of day laborer who stints
and slaves to buy her deformed child shoes
that support a twisted foot. Each pail
costs IS, more than the father earns in a
fortnight, too often, but the mother sews
and goes without food to buy the shoes
which help her darling. The child has
been to the hospital and has been operated
on repeatedly, without cure, and now the
mother will not try any more.
Here she and thousand other parents
are wrong. They try two or three methods,
halfa dozen maybe, and then submit to
lifelong illness and deiormitv. So many
sick, OF all ages, have given up hopelessly,
when perhaps the water of healing was
beyond the next palm trees. Few diseases
under IS should ever be considered hope
less, or few deformities under 80 years OF
age. The right practice may not have been
much is expected from medicine or from spe-
cisl treatment, forgetting how little these are
able to DO without good nursing, pure air,
diet and good influences generally. With
these more can be done without medicine
than medicine alone can ever do. Yet 1
would be one OF the last to decrv medicine.
THE DEFoRMITIEs OF CHILDREN
are counted the most hopeful Of cure. A
clever doctor will take sore-eyed, ricketv,
distorted child from The slums, or from
homes nowhere near the slums but quite as
unhealthy, and make it for all purposes
sound and useful for life in year or two.
He will mend its hare-lip, to begin. They
take in families at city hospitals to heal for
this feature. st. Luke's New York CITY,
had an Italian mother and her three children
from eight years old to the baby under treat
ment at once, the baby having a double
hare-lip for a start in lite All were menued
up and sent out passably good looking.
Cross eyes frequently come from bad
digestion and they must be set right first in
all diseases and disorders. The strong ex-
preston of Dujardin- Beaumetz on con-
sumption is no less true of most other mala-
dies. There do not exist several medi-
cations for it: there is but one
which addresses itself to the nutrition,
Others are only adiuncts which become
dangerous if they affect unfavorably for a
single day or a single instant, the digestive
functions" And we may seriously add the
following sentence for all disorders OF chill
dren: Thus far those conditions which
promote bodily vigor have alone been found
efectual." As parting advice the doctor
usually says pay good attention to the
general health, diet, ETC., when he should
say, "YOur habits must be set right or
medicine has only the throw of a dice for
you" and he should insist upon strict care
in these respects as he insists on not taking
acids with certain medicines, or on poul-
tices and bandages when necessary. With
out strict home care, the chances OF recovery
BY medicine are in 100, while with such
care they are 80 in 100.
Beautiful are the miracles of the healing
art, though slow, and no less valuable for
being the work of time. If people could be
cured by the touch Of a hand they might
be very careless how they ran the risk of
being sick again.
GOOD CARE woRKs WONDERS.
II these kindly works in the town ba-
bies which are every season consigned to the |
v.
They come OF the worst parentage perhaps,
walls and foundlinss, their heads and faces |
crusted with sores, eyes all but closed with |
and every function astray. |
The good woman has her own time with |
them the first year, but at the end, with |
fresh milk and fresh air, decent cleanliness |
aud punctual hours you will find the same
children fair aud smooth of cheek as roses,
the eyes brave and bright, the poor thin
bodies growing plump, firm and frolicsome-
q sight for all men to be thankful for All
disease of such class as ricketts, or epilepsies
need IN childhood littleother treatment than
good, strengthening care. The best thing
for weakly young child is to put on its
or no gown, and lay it on bed
Dr. on the carpet in a warm room to sprawl
in the sunshine. The effect Of the stimulant
IS simply magical. Appetite increases,
sleep is sounder and the spirits better. The
color grows rich and the very quality of the
1esh alters and becomes excellent. The
little Greek boys in Alma Trademarks inte-
riors are so pretty and so happy, PLAYING
over the bath or on the lions skin with their
for garment, one is tempt
I'd to wish for the Seclusion of tie Greek
women's apartment, where mothers might |
work in scanty apparel, and the babies in
hone al all.
The food in children's ailments must be
n possible, and they are the bet
er in rickets, and case of withered limbs or
backward growth for a course OF hypophos-
ohites. Acid phosphate, in very small
loses, or vitalized phosphates are most val
liable in such cases, and soon call by in
creased appetite for rich food like cream,
Fheaten grits boiled in broth, and doses of
lpanin, the new substitute for cod liver oil,
made FROM the finest olive oil. Raw eggs
'eaten up with two tablespooniuls of calf's
DOT jelly or ruit jelly to each egg are very
tFengJheniug and relishing. In
FEEDING CHILDREN AND IEvALIDs
or strength, care must be used to have food
aste good, and invite appetite for the sake
D eating. Tnn nlten the liffln innlinaf tim |