Ourselves, our food, and our physic / [Benjamin Ridge].

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1884
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / [Benjamin Ridge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    child has excess of power, and gets plethoric, leading up to fits, convulsions, and infant apoplexies, how easy is their reduction! If another child, on the other hand, has its natural powers in abeyance, how simple are the means of exciting them ! Again, supposing the natural powers to be well balanced, but still, from fault of diet, or the appro¬ priation of it, an unsatisfactory condition ensues, how simple is the mode of correction! In short, a general adherence to keeping the whole system free and clear of morbid elements, forms the whole philosophy of infant medication. The following formulas will be found useful for the slighter maladies of infants and children:—• 30. Take— Ipecacuanha wine . 30 drops. Water . 1 ounce. Mix. Give a tea-spoonful every three hours. 31. Take— Ipecacuanha wine . 30 drops. Simple syrup or sugar . 1 drachm. Water _:. 1 ounce. Mix. Give two tea-spoonfuls three times a day. 32. Take— Ipecacuanha wine . . i drachm. Carbonate of magnesia ... 1 „ Water.. 2 ounces. Mix. Give a dessert-spoonful frequently. 33. Take- Ipecacuanha wine . drachm. Sal volatile . J „ Carbonate of magnesia . 1 „ Chloric ether . 5 drops. Simple syrup . 2 drachms. Water, to make up. 3 ounces. Mix. Give a dessert-spoonful when griping pains arise attended with slimy green motions, crying, and general distress.