Year: 1872

food for a child during the whole oi
the summer months, and indeed at
all times, should be milk, either pure
or mixed with farinaeeous ARTICLES,
such as -four, powdered biscuit, In
dian meal, preparations of wheat,
rice and arrow-rout, IN the shape of
pap, puddings, &c, sometimes flaw
ored with cinnamon, nutinegaDd the
like. The drink will be cool water,
and much refreshmont win be pro
cured to tho child suffering from
teething, by taking into It's mouth
ground ice. which, even if swallowed
before it is entirely dissolved, viii do
no harm. Gum water, barley er
and infusion of different herbs 9,
balms, &c, may severally be e, seE
to vary the drinks. The extreme ir-
ritation of teething. sometimes caus-
ing commissions, can be relieved by
the physician laneing the gums. The
clothing of children IN the summer
season should be of light texture,
easy fitting and loose; the inner gar
ment being of We thin or gauze
flannel, which prevents the heat from
being so sensibly felt as 1t would be
with different kind of garmentnext
10 the skin, and also has the advan-
tage Of preventing chilling of the
body after profuse perspiration or
a sudden reduction of temperature.
A change ought TO be made, if pos
sible, both night and morning. All
parts of the body should be protected
from the sun, and hence the cloth
ing should come up to the mock and
cover the legs, instead of the breast
and shoulders being left naked to
increase the risk of q sudden chill
and suppressed perspiration, the el-
fectH OF which, at this season, will
show themselves by deranging the
stomach and bowels Exercise,
which in the case of a child III the
arms must be passive, is often very
.Berviceable when taken In carriage
or the cars, and for the time being it
arrests the disorder Of the bowels.
A still milder movement, but one
not without beneficial results, is OBJ
tanned in w2ter-craft.





When warning against the use of
indigestible Iood, we might be sup
posed, of course, to include in the
prohibition of unripe fruits, which
not unfrequently act as a sure poison
when taken into the stomach of a
sick or even merely delicate child.
The case is different with ripe fruits
and that which has been subjected
to culinary process by baking or
stewing. A popular remedy for in
fantile diarrhea Is found IN syrup
of dewherries or OF blackberTies. The
greatest number of children suffer
ing and dying from cholera inlantum
are found under the disadvantage
Gus circumstances of living to which
we have adVerted; but it wOuld be a
great mistake to suppose that there
is any class exempt from its inaic-
tons. The children of the wealthy,
living In spacious apartments and IN
the enjoyment of "a comparatively
pure air IN garden and other grounds
often pay their tax. So far the sum-
mer is passing on without many VIC
blHlS Doing SdCIAlCSu " eliS uloCo0O5
but still there Is an increase from
week to week; two deaths IN the one
ending June 3; fOar in the term end
ing June 10; ten In that which end
ed June IL, and thirty nine last week.
We can hardly hope, as the atmos
phere becomes more oppressive and
the air in crowded parts of tho city
more impure, that cholera infanUum
will not contine to exhibit rising
figures.