cian. The food should be
changed--such children require fats; very little starchy or sweet foods
allowed. A baby ten to twelve months old can suck a piece of boiled bacon
for a few minutes every day. Fruit juices can be given early, raw meat
juice once a day. Give him his tub bath daily, and if he is apt to take
cold easily he should have a little cold water dashed over his chest and
spine, followed by a gentle brisk rubbing to start up the circulation. Sun
baths are beneficial. Place the baby directly in the sun with his back to
it, for an hour every day. Give him plenty of air and sunshine, both
indoors and outdoors.

Medicine.--Cod liver oil is an excellent remedy with the hypophosphites.
Cod liver oil alone with calcarea phosphoricum 3X (homeopathic) is
splendid treatment also. The whole treatment must be continued for
months--calcarea phos. four times daily.

SCURVY.--This disease is sometimes seen in infants. It attacks infants who
have been fed for a long time on a proprietary food or else on milk that
has been over sterilized. Nursing children seldom have it, or those who
have been properly fed on modified cows' milk. Babies who are delicate and
poorly nourished are more subject to it. The first symptoms a mother
notices is that it seems to hurt very much when his legs are touched;
sometimes both hurt, and then again only one is painful; at other times
the arms will be most painful and again both arms and legs seem to pain
alike. So it goes on; the joints enlarge somewhat and sometimes little red
spots appear just under the skin and very often the gums will become red
and spongy; this is especially noticeable around the incisor teeth of the
upper gums, if they have already appeared. Rheumatism is very rarely seen
so early and with that, there is generally fever.

Treatment.--A cure is soon affected. Stop the patent food at once, or if
the milk has been sterilized, it must be discontinued and the baby put on
unsterilized milk diluted to the proper strength for his special age.
Strained juice of an orange should be given him every day; if under six
months he can have the juice of one-half an orange; over that the juice of
one orange. This is given in intervals during the day. Beef juice is good,
about two ounces in twenty-four hours. Smaller amount if necessary.
Improvement is noticed twenty-four to forty-eight hours after treatment.

MALNUTRITION. (Marasmus).--Marasmus is a term applied to infants who g