Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-03-28
CHlLpREN,s ILLNESS.
Simple Homo ucmedies for the Preven'
ton of Serious Ailments.

tion of Serious Ailments.
While the habit of using drugs too
freely should be deprecated, yet every
mother ought to have at her hand, so
to speak, some simple remedies which
she may use If there happen to be occa-
sion for them. One of these is roll OF
sticking plaster, a real necessity where
there are growing boys with u facility
for accidental cuts and bruises. An
other is box of simple cerate, or jar
of vaseline; square OF mutton fellow
and block of cocoa butter are useful
in the mothers medicine-closet. Old
linen furnished by worn-out sheets,
pillow-slips, and handlScrchiefs should,
in pieces of different lengths, be ready
for bandages.
Mustard, sweet-oil, camphor, cam
phorated oil, paregoric, ipecac, and
quinine in one or two grain pills,
should be where the mother can get
them at moments notice. A foot
tub, ready for the hot water which
may be needed TO battle the fevered
child, or TO relax the limbs twisted in
a convulson, soft towels. spirit
lamp, and a small teakettle, haXseed
for poultices, catnip, ground ginger,
pennyroyal, and mint, are as useful
now as in the days of our grand
mothers. If the mother incline to the
tiny pellets of homeopathy, and the
small walls Of precious extracts which
are inodorous and tasteless, yet SO
potential, let her be sure that she en-
tirely understands their specific use,
and on ordinary occasions let her con-
| fine herself to those which are simplest
and least subtle.
OF course the rule should be always
to summon a physician, if one can, SO
soon as children are threatened with
illness. serious illness may be avert
ed if the thing is taken in time, and
what looks to the unskilled as trifling
symptom may be an indication, patent
to the educated eye, of some grave dis
ease.
A case in point occurs to memory
where an active little fellow COM
planned of chill and nausea, signs al.
ways of disturbance at vital points,
yet sturdily kept on trying to play.
The family doctor was sent for, and
half alphabetically received by the par
ents, but he soon discovered that the
child was sicEening of critical and
perilous disorder, from which he bare
ly escaped with life.
Especially where the young children
and babies too small to tell their trou
bles are concerned, the mother should
at once have the doctor if they do not
seem quite right. But she should not
lose her head, nor grow excited and
nervous at every little sign of illness.
The great thing is to observe closely
the laws of health. Little feet mus
be kept warm, little bodies carefully
clothed, diet and regimen watched
daily bathing and sleeping at regular
hours must be insisted on. Regularity
in every physical function is extremely
important, and indiscriminate stufiine
with sweets and bonbons almost sure
to have an unfavorable effect.
Pure ventilation and separate bed
for the children have much to do will
maintaining their health at higl
standard.
These things attended TO, keep tn,
children beautifully busy, with plent,
of play, and their illnesses will be ex
captions in the uniformity of thei
pleasant lives. -Harper's Bazaar