ng as ten or fifteen minutes, but
rarely.

REMEDY.--Give the child a warm bath and rub gently. Clothes wrung out of
cold water and applied to the lower and back part of the head and plenty of
fresh air will usually relieve the convulsion. Be sure and loosen the
clothing around the child's neck. After the convulsion is over, give the
child a few doses of potassic bromide, and an injection of castor oil if
the abdomen is swollen. Potassic bromide should be kept in the house, to
use in case of necessity.

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Pains and Ills in Nursing.

[Illustration: The City Hospital.--A Homeless and Friendless Mother.]

1. SORE NIPPLES.--If a lady, during the latter few months of her pregnancy,
were to adopt "means to harden the nipples," sore nipples during the period
of suckling would not be so prevalent as they are.

2. CAUSE.--A sore nipple is frequently produced by the injudicious custom
of allowing the child to have the nipple {311} almost constantly in his
mouth. Another frequent cause of a sore nipple is from the babe having the
canker. Another cause of a sore nipple is from the mother, after the babe
has been sucking, putting up the nipple wet. She, therefore, ought always
to dry the nipple, not by rubbing, but by dabbing it with a soft cambric or
lawn handkerchief, or with a piece of soft linen rag--one or the other of
which ought always to be at hand--every time directly after the child has
done sucking, and just before applying any of the following powders or
lotions to the nipple.

3. REMEDIES.--One of the best remedies for a sore nipple is the following
powder:

Take of--Borax, one drachm; Powdered Starch, seven drachms.

Mix.--A pinch of the powder to be frequently applied to the nipple.

If the above does not cure, try Glycerine by applying it each time after
nursing.

4. GATHERED BREAST.--A healthy-woman with a well-developed breast and a
good nipple, scarcely, if ever, has a gathered bosom; it is the delicate,
the ill-developed breasted and worse-developed nippled lady who usually
suffers from this painful complaint. And why? The evil can generally be
traced to girlhood. If she be brought up luxuriously, her health and her
breasts are sure to be weakened, and thus to suffer, more especially if the
development of the bosoms and nipples has been arrested and interfered with
by tight stays and corsets. Why, the nipple is by them drawn in, and
retained on the level with the breast--counter