The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . marks after healing. Milk Crust. 305 How Treated. In the early stages, it will often speedily yieldto proper regulation of the diet, mild laxatives, and soothing doses of magnesia and ipecacuanha, warm baths, pure, freshair, are invaluable adjuncts in the treatment. Occasionally, itbecomes necessary to add tonics, as potassio-tartrate, or syrup of theiodide of iron (p. 361), infusions of cinchona, dogwood, goose grass,etc. (p. 349). As local applicatio
The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . marks after healing. Milk Crust. 305 How Treated. In the early stages, it will often speedily yieldto proper regulation of the diet, mild laxatives, and soothing doses of magnesia and ipecacuanha, warm baths, pure, freshair, are invaluable adjuncts in the treatment. Occasionally, itbecomes necessary to add tonics, as potassio-tartrate, or syrup of theiodide of iron (p. 361), infusions of cinchona, dogwood, goose grass,etc. (p. 349). As local applications to kill the itching and cause theeruption to disappear, the ointment of nitrate of mercury, say onepart to three of clean lard; or oxide of zinc ointment (p. 356);or camphor and chloral, equal parts, rubbed up till they melt, andadded to glycerine or simple cerate, in the proportion of half adrachm to the ounce, or stronger, as may be required. In very greatly protracted cases, the solution of the arseniate ofpotassa, or Fowlers solution, in two-drop doses three times a day,will generally effect a cure, if persisted 26* CHAPTER IX. Accidents, Injuries, and Surgical Ailments ofChildren. Lancing the Gums—Tongue Tie—Hare Lip—Wry Neck—Sore Eyes-Cross Eyes—Ingrowing Eyelashes—Styes—Running, or Catarrh of theEars—Earache—Crushed Fingers—Hip Disease—Spinal Diseases: Cur-vature of the Spine, Inflammation of the Spine, Dropsy of the Spine—Club Foot—Weak Ankles—Knock-Knee—Rupture, or Hernia—Cancer—Swellings of the Glands of the Neck. Of course, children are exposed to many of the same accidentsto which adults are liable, and the treatment is generally the it is, has already been described in Chapter VII. But child-ren are also particularly subject to certain injuries and surgicaldiseases to which parents should be prepared to give early andintelligent attention. Frequently, years of misery or permanentdisfigurement can be avoided by cor
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