bread, potatoes, but do not
give an emetic or cathartic. An infant should have its usual food. A
cathartic would hurry the foreign body too rapidly through the intestines,
and in this way do harm. In the usual way it becomes coated with fecal
matter and usually passes the intestines without causing any injury.

What shall I do if it is in the ears? If you can easily remove it with
your fingers or small hair pin or crochet hook, do it. If not, take the
baby to a physician. If it is a corn, bean or pea, do not wet it, or it
will swell and become larger.

What if it is in the nostril? Place baby upon the table with its face
toward a good light and use a hair pin bent right and pass this slowly and
carefully behind the object, and pull slowly forward; or compress the
empty nostril and have the child blow the nose strongly. If not removed
easily, see a physician.

COLIC.

This is a very common disturbance in children, and is always due to
disturbed digestion. It occurs in both nursed and bottle-fed babies, and
may appear in the healthiest baby from error in the last meal, or error of
diet or habit in the mother. Some mothers cannot under any circumstances
secrete good nourishing milk, suitable for their children, and continued
stomach and bowel disturbances with colic and emaciation follow its use.
Such mothers should not nurse their baby.

What are the causes of colic? As before stated, it is due to indigestion

What causes indigestion? In nursing babies this may be due to some
irregularity in the health or habits of the mother, or change in her
dieting, and if the colic is not persistent the cause is not hard to find.
Worry, trouble, sorrow, anger, overwork, and errors of diet in the mother
often cause this trouble or the child may nurse too fast, too long, too
much, or too often, or the milk may be too rich. If so, give baby an ounce
of hot water before nursing. Hand-fed children are too often over-fed, and
this produces indigestion.

What are the symptoms of colic? The child screams sharply; the cry comes
suddenly and returns every few minutes; he draws up his legs and feet; the
muscles of his face contract and he has other signs of pain. The belly is
usually hard and tense.

What can I do for colic? First warm his feet and hands by placing them
against a hot-water bag, or holding them before the open fire, turn him on
his stomach, letting him lie on a hot-water bag or hot piece of flannel;
pat his back gen