. Diseases of infancy and childhood . tion with a iHtarsetowel, will slinuilale the Iirculation. 230 DISEASES OF THE STOMACH. j\Iediced ion.—IStoniach washing, by using 1 or 2 pints of warm waterto which bicarbonate of soda has been added, is verv useful. Tliis may berepeated every day. Sodium phosphate, in 5- to 10- grain doses, every morn-ing or evening, is indicated. Fowlers solution, in 1- to 5- drop doses, three times a day, and nuxvomica, in 1-minim doses, three times a day.^ Bismuth suljnitrate or bismuth beta-naphthol, to relieve the diarrhoea,are very valuable remedies. For persistent
. Diseases of infancy and childhood . tion with a iHtarsetowel, will slinuilale the Iirculation. 230 DISEASES OF THE STOMACH. j\Iediced ion.—IStoniach washing, by using 1 or 2 pints of warm waterto which bicarbonate of soda has been added, is verv useful. Tliis may berepeated every day. Sodium phosphate, in 5- to 10- grain doses, every morn-ing or evening, is indicated. Fowlers solution, in 1- to 5- drop doses, three times a day, and nuxvomica, in 1-minim doses, three times a day.^ Bismuth suljnitrate or bismuth beta-naphthol, to relieve the diarrhoea,are very valuable remedies. For persistent vomiting menthol, in 1-grain doses, and oxalate ofcerium, in 2- or 3- grain doses, every few hours, are useful. Gentle currentsof faradic electricity will also aid and strengthen the atonic condition. Acute Dilatation of the Stomach. This condition is quite frequently met with in —The anatomical and physiological peculiarities of the in-fantile stomach render it peculiarly susceptible to the development of this. DILATED age of one month. Fig. 60.—Drawing from a Case of Acute Dilatation of the Stomach,GiAing Exact Size Post-mortem. Bottle-fed Infant. Summer Complaint,Due to Over-feeding, and Too Frequent Feeding. Compare normal size withthe dilated condition, (Original.) ^Eraser, of Xew York Citj, makes a 1-minim nux vomica tablet, which issoluble and quite palatable. BULIMIA. 231 condition. The walls of the stoinaeli are thin. The weakness of tlie re-sistance of the muscular walls and the ease with which a general anaemiaand resultant muscular atony occur in children must he remembered inconsidering etiological factors. ]{achitis plays an impoitant part in thedevelopment of this condition. Severe gastric catarrh with associatedfermentative conditions are predisposing factors. Patholog^y.—A general atrophied condition of the entire gastric wallexists. The muscular coats are frequently thickened. The mucous mem-brane shows evidences of chroni
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