Babyhood . ter the blister is well formed it isto be snipped at its most dependent part witha pair of sharp-pointed scissors, in order tolet the fluid drain off, and then dressed twicea day with some mild ointment, as zinc oint-ment, cold cream, vaseline, or pure lard. Ifthe patient be delirious or unruly it may be-come advisable to put on the blistering ma-terial in such a way that the child cannotdisturb it. To accomplish this the cantha-ridal collodion, or blistering-fluid, is avail-able. It is ordinary collodion impregnatedwith cantharides, and leaves a thin, vesica-tory film on evaporatio
Babyhood . ter the blister is well formed it isto be snipped at its most dependent part witha pair of sharp-pointed scissors, in order tolet the fluid drain off, and then dressed twicea day with some mild ointment, as zinc oint-ment, cold cream, vaseline, or pure lard. Ifthe patient be delirious or unruly it may be-come advisable to put on the blistering ma-terial in such a way that the child cannotdisturb it. To accomplish this the cantha-ridal collodion, or blistering-fluid, is avail-able. It is ordinary collodion impregnatedwith cantharides, and leaves a thin, vesica-tory film on evaporation ; two or three coatsof it should be applied by means of a camels-hair brush, and in six hours covered with apoultice. One danger attending the appli-cation of a fly-blister is that it now andthen causes strangury7, or difficult symptoms of this complication ap-pear the doctor must be immediately con-sulted. As a rule * recourse to blisteringought only to be had when ordered by BOYS AND GIRLS. I.—OUR GIRLS. BY LUCY WH1 AHIGH SCHOOL boy at Lawrence, IMass., went home last night delight-ed with the idea of a military-drill about to jbe introduced into the school. I tell you, jhe said pityingly to his sister, it pays to be aboy! The paragraph just quoted appeared in arecent number of one of the weekly was in the column labelled Funny, but jit suggests a point which parents, especiallymothers, would do well to heed. Probably thousands of boys pityingly, and jmore thousands of girls mournfully, havesaid or thought : It pays to be a as old as civilized motherhood is thedialogue between mother and daughter, insubstance as follows: Mamma, cant I do this ? Oh ! no, dear, in horrified accents. But, mamma, Tom does, and I want cant I, mamma ? Why, my dear, Tom is a boy. Littleboys can do lots of things that it isnt nice <for little girls to do, you know. And this system, often begun in very in- !fancy, is followed out till
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