assumes different appearances in different constitutions; therefore, when attended with any degree of malignity, no general rule can be relied upon. All these variations Dr. Wallis particularizes, but no lady would trust her own judgment to discriminate, where her infant's life was at stake. What is here said is enough to enable us to know when more assistance is requisite, and this is absolutely necessary for every mother to know. Several of my children have had it, and as the part of the country where we reside is remarkable for a pure, salubrious air, they were neither of them so ill as to be confined a moment, and took but little medicine. Elixir paregoric at night, and some expectorant drinks, such as hyssop tea, acidulated with lemon juice, or tamarinds, or cream of tartar, or linseed tea sweetened with double refined sugar, or honey, was all I found necessary for them; therefore, it would be my advice to all parents who reside in cities, and have it in their power, whenever their 'children are infected with the hooping cough, to remove them as far as possible from the place where the disease prevails, and permit them, to use as much exercise as possible in a pure country air, free from the smoke and vapours of the town this, in four instances out of five, would cause a mitigation of the most distressing symptoms. And although Dr. Wallis says nothing in favour of opiates in this disease, I must believe them of great service in allaying the spasmodic affections, as well as opening the chest, and assisting expectoration, especially the elixir paregoric; and that kind which has liquorice for an ingredient is to preferred. Inflammation of the Lungs. THIS is a very distressing complaint, to which children from one to two years are very often subject. I have frequently known it brought on by violent exercise in a damp, cold air, and seen children who appeared only slightly affected with a cold at noon, come in from their play at night with a flushed face, violent headach, full, hard pulse, breath ing almost impeded, and attended by a wheezing noise extremely distressing, cough nearly incessant, and every symptom highly inflammatory, extending sometimes to a slight delirium. In these cases I take the little patients to a warm room, give an emetic as soon as possible, bathe the feet and legs in warm water, and apply burdock leaves to the feet, if they are to be procured; if not, garlic drafts. I then put them to bed, and prevail upon them to drink freely of hyssop tea sweetened with honey. Should not the cough appear to abate after the operation of the emetic, in two or three hours I give a tea-spoonful, or less, according to the age of the child, of syrup of squills diluted with water, adding ten or fifteen drops of elixir paregoric; and in the morning exhibit a dose of senna and manna. If the child appears better in the morning, if the fever is abated, the breathing less difficult, and the cough somewhat relieved, a few days' confinement, bathing the feet and renewing the drafts every night, and giving a cup of hyssop tea every two or three hours, to promote expectoration and throw open the pores, will generally restore the little patient to health with the addition of light and easy diet; but if the inflammatory symptoms increase rather than abate the ensuing day, medical advice must be had, for this is an acute and often fatal complaint, if neglected; and if it does not readily yield to the little remedies here proposed, it would be wrong to trifle with it. Ear-ach. THIS may proceed from various causes; the most common are sudden cold affecting the part, either from exposing the head, uncovered, to the cold, after being very warm, or setting against a crack or crevice, so that a current of air shall strike directly upon the ear, which is a very delicate organ, easily subject to inflammation, which often ends in deafness, or perpetual ulcers, which are ex. tremely afflicting and troublesome., The ear-ach also sometimes proceeds from har dened wax sticking in the ear, or worms bẹing bred there, from eggs laid in the wax by the flesh fly, which Dr. Wallis mentions as being sometimes the case. It is also ་ spasmodic, and is then often very severe, and likely to recur frequently, being occasioned by every little cold. Dr.Underwood, recommends the juice of rue, and two or three drops of laudanum, when this is the cause; or six or eight drops of laudanum, made warm, and dropped into the ear with a marrow spoon. But the worst disorder of the ear is an abscess forming within it, which is often occasioned by a sudden cold, but is more frequently owing to the translation of morbid matter to the ear, usually at the crisis of some malignant fever, or those of the typhus kind; and these ulcers are very difficult to heal, often continuing to discharge many months, and sometimes are never perfectly healed, but occasion deafness, and all its unpleasant effects; and when they are actually healed, the part continues subject to them, upon the slightest cold. When this happens there is no relief until a suppuration takes place, to which end we must bend all our endeavours. Roasted onions are exceedingly good applied warm to the part; the heart of the onion should be wrapt in fine lawn, and inserted into the ca : |