Year: 1871

anxiety vanquishes like the wild melo-
dies of dream; your child is lifted out
of its true and real state of feeling into
boundless and pleasing hallucinations of
fancy. For a short time your babe is
at rest, and your business of the house
hold goes on charmingly. Oh, what a
blessed thing is that Soothing Syrup .
This state Of feeling may last half an
hour or more, then the counter effects
follow, which are full surrender 70 the
balmy embraces or else nervous wake.
fulness, and feelings as if millions Of
nettles we're over the skin and itching,
which scratching only aggrayates, until
your child is thrown into frenzy, which
is only to be relieved with another dose
of soothing syrup of course. When
these effects pass of; nausea and vomit'
ing follows, and irregular nervous action,
causing irregularity Of the pulse. The
peristalic action Of the bowels is less
ened, and ali of the secretions are sus-
pended the liver and kidneys are con-
stipsted; the bowels for want of bile are
motionless and your babe now is sick.
What next? \ dose Of oil or some
other cathartic is given, and your babe
made still worse by It's effects, which are
worse by 4 great deal than the ailment
for which the soothing syrup was given.
The constant torpidlty Of the liver and
kidneys that the soothing syrup induces,
becomes second nature, and the con-
sequences are thai the stomach is weak
the bowels do not throw off the debris
or fecal matter; tho bile is not taken
from the blood and the seventeen I'M
purities that should PASS Of through the
kidneys is retained in the blood or cellu.
lar membrane. Your child by this time
is an invalid from blood poisoning Of
which the prime causeis Mrs. Winslows
soothing syrup. Now if the medicine
or syrup is discontinued, all of these ef-
fects will pass of after while, that is
if you have not used it TOO long, and
permanently injured the vital organs,
then. the system will by its recuperative
powers restore your babe to a tolerable
degree of health. But if you continue
its use, the dose must be increased and
the system charged with this narcotic.
The symptoms then are as follow9-: the
period of exhilaration IS shorter, and the
soporifc and anodyno effects are stronger
and longer and the consequent debility
more alarming; the pupils orc con.
tracted; and q ste2torous respiration
a dark suffusion of countenance; a full,
slow and laboring pulse, and almost
total inconsistencies to impression
when aroused they viii soon fall back
into a dreamy sleep or complete coma.


have in many instances been called
in my practice to see children with all
of these effects, which were caused by
large doses of soothing syrup, which had
been given by nurses Or parents who
were made to believe that it was safe
and harmless, and that It contained no
opium, and all of this deception you
will find in the printed directions for it's
use with each bottle of the nostrum.-
True enough it doessnot contain opium.
! Opium contains about 30 elementary
constituents, aud no ten or twenty OF
these is opium, but one of them, the mar
cotin, which the nostrum contains is
capable of doing all this mischief.


Mothers hear my plea and | shall
fully acquit myself and sustain my
premises in exposing this curse to our
race.


Besides charging the blood with over
fifty varieties of poison by the use ot
the soothing syrup, there is by the mar


cotic effects an inordjnatc pressure upon
the brain by the invitation Of an extra
circulation Of blood to the brain; thi.
is active congestion The blood vessels


arc cngorgod with tho sanguineous fui,


to their utmost capacity, and the hea


still forcing more upon the brain unit


the arteries become ike net work 0


wire, with a painful pressure upon In


brain the blood here becomes obstruct


cd in its circulation and lies almos
motionless, which is called passive con
, gestion of the brain the blood the