Letters to a mother on the watchful care of her infant.

Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters to a mother on the watchful care of her infant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rhubarb, magnesia, and especially manna, singly or conjointly, are very proper remedies for infants. To excite vomiting, a few grains, from three to five, of ipecacuanha, given with plenty of lukewarm barley water, are far better than the preparation of antimony usually employed for this purpose, termed tartar-emetic ; and in urgent cases, in the necessary absence of your medical friend, you may venture on this remedy. The best cordials are brandy and sal volatile; the former for exhaus- tion generally, the latter when this is connected with pain and irritation of the bowels. What shall I say to you of anodynes ? that you should never, or scarcely ever, venture to give them. Infants are very susceptible of the effects of even single