kness.--When a baby who persistently refuses his food is
drowsy at unusual times, fretful, feverish, and is uncomfortable, the
mother should look in baby's mouth, for sore throat or tonsils, or on his
body for rashes. Undress the baby and put him to bed in a quiet room away
from the rest of the family, and if he is hot and restless give him a
sponge bath with one teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to a basin of
luke-warm water. Give him also an enema to move his bowels, especially if
they are not regular. Dilute his usual food with water or barley water to
one-half the usual strength. If he is old enough to eat solid food, stop
it. A dose of a teaspoonful of castor oil is safe to give until the doctor
comes. Give him water to drink for he is thirsty. Take his temperature.

CARING FOR BURNS, BRUISES, CUTS, WOUNDS, ETC., IN BABY.

For Burns.--Keep away the air from the burn. Dust soda on the burn if the
skin is not too much broken, and wrap it up in clean linen. Olive oil,
linseed oil, is better, or cream should be put on if it is more severe.
Then a layer of clean linen and then a thin layer of cotton wool. It must
not be too warmly dressed. An ointment called pineoline is excellent for
burns.

For a bruise or bump.--Apply cloths hot or cold,--you can do this with
flannel wrung out of very cold or hot water. Ice may be wrapped up in
cotton and put on the part.

Cuts.--Wash it with clean cold water, and bind it up with clean linen. If
it bleeds much, let it bleed for a few seconds, and then stop it with a
pad of clean linen pressed firmly on the part and held there until it
stops.

SPLINTERS.--Remove them and dress as for any other wound.

POISONING.--Children will get hold of poison, and mother had better have
antidotes, etc., to use in case of necessity. Rat poison, fly poison,
matches, etc.

Treatment.--First use emetics; mustard and luke-warm water or one
teaspoonful of alum in a glass of luke-warm water; a little salt and warm
water; ten to fifteen drops syrup of ipecac, and then warm water. For fly
poison, give one-half ounce of olive oil in same amount of lime-water, and
repeat it every five or six minutes, for five or six doses, and then white
of an egg, and keep child warm. Antidote for arsenic is freshly
precipitated, sesquioxide of iron. Go to druggist and tell him to prepare
it; tell him what it is wanted for, and give this in doses of an ounce at
a time as the oil was given.

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