heat until soft, then put the leaves so moistened into a little bag, and apply it just above the pit of the stomach; this will usually prevent the recurrence of the distressing symptoms, and give the child great relief; the essence of tansy dropped on sugar, children in general are fond of, and it should be given every morning, and again before dinner, to those who are subject to worms, whenever they begin to show indications of any indisposition which can reasonably be attributed to them; the essence of peppermint is equally good, and may be used in the same way; indeed, it is often preferable when loss of appetite is a symptom. I have a little girl who appeared very unwell last spring, would look extremely pale in the morning, and had no appetite for her breakfast; from a very bad breath, and some other circumstances, I concluded worms were the exciting cause of her ill health. I immediately began (after being convinced that air, exercise, and regimen, failed of the desired effect) to give her the essence above recommended, and in half an hour after taking her dose in the morning she would have a fine appetite, and eat her

bread and milk with the keenest relish, and in six weeks time all her faint languid symptoms disappeared, and now she enjoys fine health, and can scarcely wait until the servant brings her breakfast after she rises. It should always be remembered by every one who has the care of children, that medicine does not work by magic, and therefore cannot be expected to cure any complaint instantaneously. It is the mistaken idea that a medicine which does not cure immediately will never cure, that so often renders the best advice and most appropriate treatment abortive: it frequently happens also that we give some drug which very soon procures a mitigation of the symptoms; we then think nature will do the rest, and remit the medicine; the disease returns with renewed energy, like a baffled enemy, who, perceiving his opponent off his guard, or wholly withdrawn, returns to the attack with renovated courage, confident of victory: and so it too frequently happens; the second attack is worse than the first. We should, therefore, when we find a medicine beneficial to any complaint whatever, persevere in the use of it until the cure is performed, or

we are convinced by candid and sufficient experiment that it is not equal alone to the conquest of the disease. It is a well known fact, especially in eruptive complaints, that a remedy which is actually adequate to the cure, will make the disorder apparently worse at first, by throwing it out of the blood upon the surface, which is evidently the true indication, but which many persons who do not reflect upon the nature of the case, look upon as a bad symptom, and abandon the medicine from a supposition that it makes them This is an error, which, it is hoped, more general information as to the nature and effects of medicine on the frame would happily correct. The happy effect of the simple medicine above mentioned on my little girl, was not produced in a day nor a week; I gave it to her every morning, or every other morning, for several weeks.

worse.

I have heard some ladies express a fear of giving an emetic in worm complaints, lest it should cause them to rise in the stomach and occasion fits or suffocation; but I have been assured, by very able physicians, that this is a mistaken idea, for if the worms were

actually in the stomach they ought to be brought away, and then an emetic might be of service, or, indeed, the only remedy; but if they were not in the stomach, taking an emetic would never bring them into that bowel, especially ipecacuanha, for they loathe all bitter or nauseous drugs. Therefore, whenever my children are seized with vomiting or nausea, or have high feverish symptoms, which I have reason to attribute to worms, and they will not yield to light, cordial, or aromatic medicines, I immediately give them an emetic of ipecac or antimonial wine, and the following day some purgative medicine: by this means fevers are often prevented, and if worms are the exciting cause, they will probably be evacuated in the course of the operation; and if the child is not materially better after it is over, the indication is obvious; some more powerful vermifuge must be resorted to immediately.

Measles.

THIS disease is thus described by Dr. Wallis: "According to my conception, it is in general a febrile disease of the inflammatory kind, always infectious, electively affect ing that membrane called scheiderian, which lines the inside of the nose, throat and lungs, and, in its progression, the skin; though I have seen the affection of the lungs so extremely slight, as not to call forth the least attention, where there was a diarrhoea attended through the whole course of the disease. Its progress is divided into three stages; the first precedes, the second attends, and the last succeeds the completion of the eruption. At the commencement there are chilness and heat alternately succeeding each other; soon after, on the second day, the fever increases, attended with considerable sickness, great heat, thirst, languor, and loss of appetite; the tongue is white; there is a heaviness of the head and drowsiness, sneezing, brightness of the eyes, from whence