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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    Not dissimilar appearances take place from giving spirits. The remedies for the morbid effects of calomel and antimony are opiates and sal volatile ; those for the morbid effects of opiates and spirits, are the free open air, nutriment, and a cor- rected condition of the bowels. In the case of a single over-dose of any one of these remedies, the most prompt and energetic modes of treat- ment must be adopted, under the imme' diate superintendance of your physician. To obviate the evil of any delay in his arrival, let one drop of laudanum and five of sal volatile be given in the two former cases, and repeat the sal volatile every half-hour. In the last, give light nourishment, and if there be coldness, feebleness, and apparent sinking, a few drops of brandy ; and keep the little