es very troublesome, and apt to
return from the commencement of teething up even to womanhood. It is a
mere sign of debility, usually also connected with a scrofulous habit,
but has no further or graver meaning. Locally, constant cold ablution by
means of a sponge held above the child, not touching it, is the great
remedy, and this may have to be repeated every hour or two if the case
is severe. Astringent lotions of different kinds may be used in the same
manner; while care must be taken that the child's drawers are large and
loose, so as not to irritate her when sitting. General treatment,
however, sea air and sea bathing are especially in these cases the great
remedy.

It must not be forgotten that all these ailments have a special tendency
to recur; and that when people say 'Dr. A. or Dr. B. did the child good
for the time, but this or that symptom returned as soon as the treatment
was discontinued,' as though this were the doctor's fault, they are
unjust; for the tendency to return of every form of scrofulous disease
is one of the great characteristics of the malady. Patience and
perseverance on the parents' part, even for months and years, are often
as much needed as skill on the part of the doctor.

One more remark may not be out of place. Some persons have an impression
that there is something specially shameful in scrofulous disease, and
while they will readily admit the existence of a consumptive tendency in
their family, they almost resent the suggestion that their child's
ailment is scrofulous. For this prejudice there is absolutely no
foundation. There is no more reason for connecting scrofula in a child
with any antecedent wrong-doing on the part of its progenitors, than
there is for attaching that idea to the red hair or black eyes which a
child may have in common with the rest of its family.

=Rickets.=--We sometimes see, especially in the poorer quarters of a
great city, persons dwarfed in stature, with large hands, bowed legs,
bent arms, swollen wrists and ankles, walking with an awkward gait,
though usually holding themselves remarkably upright, with the face of a
grown person on the body of a child, and we know that they suffered from
_rickets_ when young.

Rickets is essentially a disease of childhood, and of early childhood,
in which proper bone-formation does not take place, the soft material,
or gristle, which should turn to bone, remaining long in the soft state.
When, therefore, the child b