The sun., 1897-12-20
1lRAIfa AND HTGlENE
APuhlic Dispensasy For Tho People
OF Delaware.

Quoted Dy LIT. II. y. Joyce, OF NO. luis
West Fourth street, but all cOmmunica-
tions relating to Medical subjects must
be addressed to the Medical Editor Of
THE Sun No. 1903 East Sixth street, Will
mington, Delaware.
THE WEAVING OF CHILDREN.
wish in this connection to make a
few observations on the subject OF wean-
ing. as there appears to prevail q great
diversity OF opinion with regard to this
matter. As a general rule it may be
stated that the proper time for weaving
healthy child is between the age of ten
and fifteen months. There are, of course
some cases of delicate children where
weaning may be delayed for two OF
three months after this period, provided
the mothers health continues good, but
II the latter begins to fail or the suppl,
Of milk to diminish nursing should then b;
abandoned. The popular idea that a
child should be nurscd all through the
second summer, no matter what the con
dition of the mother or child may be, is
decidedly erroneous. The infant suffers
by being kept at the breast too long F.; the
milk diminished in quantity and defect
i've in quality, and does not consequently
afford the proper nutrition to the child.
As a result of this defective nutrition the
infant becomes thin and restless, and
the muscles flabby and weak, the
movement become clay colored or green,
followed by collie or diarrhoea, the bones
remain soft and condition known as
ricketts, is quickly established. The face
becomes sunken and distorted, and a
depraved and perverted condition of the
entire system is developed.
AS a rule, the weaving of child
should be commenced when the process
of teething is fairly well established.
When nature provides the child with
teeth, it id better for both mother and
child that it be weaned. The infant
should not, however, be weaned from
the breast in too sudden manner, as
any abrupt change of diet is very apt to
derange the digestive organs and give
rise to diarrhoea or cholera infantum.
The practice of nursing at night should
first be discontinued and the infant
accustomed in a gradual manner to the
use of other kinds of food during the
day. A good many mothers accustom
their infants to the use Of every kind of
food that they themselves partake. This
practice is based on principles that are
physiologically erroneous and highly in
furious to the health OF a young child by
giving it food that essentially requires
great powers of mastication and digestion
There is perhaps, no period of child's
existence, when SO much care is required
hp ~ r,f hn ~ hnu <p
taxing the powers OF the infants stomach
and it is by the use of these kinds of
foods in infancy that the foundation of a
weak stomach is laid, and its attendant
disorders during adult and middle life.
viz: Indigestion constipation, and dys-
pepsia.
PROPER SEASONS FUR WEAVING.
The period of the year in which a
child should be weaned is also q
matter of some Importance. If weaving
be done at an unreasonable period, one
may expect as a result diarrhoea inflam-
nation OF the stomach and bowels, or
cholera ilfantum, which may come on
in repeated attacks and quickly proves
fatal. The summer months are the least
desirable period in which to wean child
for reasons that are at once obvious while
the most favorable time is either winter,
early spring or the fall of the year.
When weaving has been determined
on, and rendered proper by the condi-
tion of the child, after having been pre-
viously accustomed to the other
kinds Of food for a few weeks,
it may then be deprived of
the breast at once provided the season be
favorable, without the least fear Of dis
comfort.
B. H.-A hernia is always durable by
a surgical operation unless unusually
complicated. The operation may take
an hour and cOniine one to the bed for
four or five weeks, providing all went
well.
}. c. FL am II years old and am
five feet five inches tall weigh only 80
pounds and wish to get stouter.
You are somewhat thin, but at your
age growth is not completed. With the
lapse OF time you will weigh more from
more development. Get plenty OF sleep,
at least nine hours night Avoid late
hours and all forms OF dissipation.
After meals take one teaspoonful of
compound syrup OF hypophosphtcs
with one tablespoonful OF emulsion
of cod liver oil and a winegass OF malt
extract.
Bella work in morocco factory,
and am 10 years old. Sometimes | have
pain in my chest, and again in the
back SO that ! can hardly breathe, am
very thin.
Those pains are probably due to poor
condition OF your blood, which makes
you subject to muscular pains on slight
exposure to cold or dampness. After
meals take pill composed as follows
Sulphate of iron and carbonate of pot
ash, each centigrams; aloin, 5 milli-
grams; s,l'phate of quinine, 3 centigtams
extract OF nux vomica, Is milligrams.
Continue for six weeks.
CRIssY RAT times during the day |
get an ashen color. Would you recon-
mend using a teasponful of powdered
ginger in Il cup of hot milk as stomach
tonic?
1t is not advisable to take such guam
titles Of ginger unless you are severely
cramped. Ginger does not tone the
stomach by itself. State symptoms more
fully and advice will be given for your
ailmcnt.
Kidnappcr to be brought East.
JEFFERSON Cry, Mo-, Dec. 1D.-Thc
Governor today honorcd the requisitcn