Volume 1

Indigestion, biliousness, and gout in its protean aspects / by J. Milner Fothergill.

Date:
1881-1883
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Credit: Indigestion, biliousness, and gout in its protean aspects / by J. Milner Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    % APPENDIX.] NDTBITION IN CHILDREN. 811 vantage at times in even very small infants, exhibiting imperfect nutrition ; either a little placed dry on the ton- gue, or held in suspension in flour-water, or the like, taken at each time of nursing. In many instances, especially in strvimous children, cod- hver oil will be foimd to be of the greatest service, even in very small mfants ; although, their power of digestion of fats being small, it should be given in very small quanti- ties, and not too often. It may sometimes be used with great advantage in the way of inunction ; and linseed oil, or sweet almond oil may be substituted for this purpose. Again, very many children, especially those of a gouty stock will have then- nutrition very greatly benefitted by the administration of a small quantity of alkali; for this purpose, perhaps, Hme-water answers very weU, having the additional advantage of supplying the elements necessary for the growth of the bones. But sometimes this is distaste- ful, and sometimes it seems to fail; we may then use the liquor potassse with advantage. Enquiry should always be made in regard to the urine of these httle ones, and if it is found to stain the diaper much, an alkali should be used, with remedies calculated to act upon the kidneys. For this purpose the following prescription will often be found of very great value. ]J Potassee Acetatis 3i.—3ii. Spiritus Ether Nitrosi 3 i.— 3 ii. Liquor Ammon, Acetatis ^ ii. A teaspoonful thi-ee, or four times daily near the time of nursing. If there is much restlessness at night, and any tendency