lly constipated, but when the
disease extends to the stomach or intestines, diarrhea occurs. There is
generally anaemia, debility, and impairment of the vital powers.

TREATMENT. The indications for treatment in this affection are to
overcome the vitiated condition of the blood, and to sustain the vital
powers. The remedies for this purpose are alteratives, antiseptics, and
tonics. Give the Golden Medical Discovery, the value of which may be
greatly enhanced by adding one-half ounce of the fluid extract of
baptisia to each bottle, in doses of a teaspoonful four times a day.
Chlorate of potash, half an ounce in a pint of water, used as a wash and
gargle, is of great value. A teaspoonful of the same may be swallowed
several times a day. This will not interfere with other medicines. As a
tonic, the tincture of the muriate of iron, in five to ten-drop doses,
diluted with water, may be taken three or four times daily. Quinine, in
one or two-gram doses, should be given with the iron if the debility be
extreme. When there is great acidity of the stomach, which may be known
by heart burn, saleratus may be taken in water, to neutralize it, but
should not be drunk within an hour of the time for taking other
medicines. If constipation exists, use the Pleasant Pellets. This course
of treatment, thoroughly carried out, will seldom fail to effect a
perfect cure, without weaning the child, yet this latter course may
sometimes become advisable to promote the recovery of the patient.
Should the treatment advised not produce the desired result, a skillful
physician's services should be secured, as he may, in individual cases,
distinguish other important indications which may enable him to modify
the treatment to advantage.

DIARRHEA, CHOLERA INFANTUM, OR SUMMER COMPLAINT, AND DYSENTERY.

These diseases are usually considered separately by medical writers but,
as they are closely related, a simple diarrhea not unfrequently running
into a _cholera infantum_ or a dysentery, we shall consider them
together.

DIARRHEA is an affection characterized by unnaturally frequent
evacuations from the bowels of a liquid of morbidly soft consistency. It
may be simple or inflammatory, and acute or chronic.

A diarrhea is said to be bilious when the discharges are composed
principally of serum, highly colored with yellow or green bile;
catarrhal, when they are of a semi-transparent, mucous character;
serous, when the dejections are thin and water