. How I kept my baby well . orcin. After each of these 15 remedies for the skin I haveplaced the number of the particular disorder forwhich it was used. For instance, after salt bathsis the number 5. Eeferring back to number 5,1 read,Flesh, rough sore, etc. Or, working the table theother way, for pimples (No. 2), I see they weretreated in the third and fifth months by a reductionof the food, and in the twenty-first month by zinc ointment. Summarizing the skin affections in this way, therash lasted in all days. Ordinarily the daily useof powder was sufficient to heal it, though once(thirte
. How I kept my baby well . orcin. After each of these 15 remedies for the skin I haveplaced the number of the particular disorder forwhich it was used. For instance, after salt bathsis the number 5. Eeferring back to number 5,1 read,Flesh, rough sore, etc. Or, working the table theother way, for pimples (No. 2), I see they weretreated in the third and fifth months by a reductionof the food, and in the twenty-first month by zinc ointment. Summarizing the skin affections in this way, therash lasted in all days. Ordinarily the daily useof powder was sufficient to heal it, though once(thirteenth month) food was reduced, and once (sev-enteenth month) plain barley was used and zinc oint-ment ai)plied. For the pimples, of which there ap-peared 19, which lasted in all days, on the thirdmonth the food was reduced, and on the twenty-firstmonth zinc ointment was applied. For the sore scalpfood was reduced in the fifth month (though prob-ably without effect); white vaseline was used in the ^ ^ o v^ a. « S rn. y. ?M 14(J SUMMARIES 147 third, fifth, seventh, eighth and twelfth months;liquid alholene in the twenty-third month (tended tomake scalp more itchy) ; zinc ointment in the sixthand eighth months; cold cream (frequently mixedwith vaseline) in the sixth and twelfth months; lano-line and oil of cade (doctors prescription) in thetwelfth month; lanoline, oil of cade and sulphur,thirteenth month (this cleaned up all the sores);olive oil in thirteenth, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifthmonths was not satisfactory, as it made scalp itchy;resorcin (doctors prescription) was used in thetwenty-fifth month. For sore face (seemed to besore like the scalp) there was tried reduced diet, fifth,sixth and ninth months; white vaseline, fifth, eighth,ninth, tenth and eleventh months; zinc ointment,sixth, eighth, ninth and tenth months; cold cream,sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh months;violet emollient, tenth, eleventh and twelfth months,after which it got well. (Several t
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