ition of sugar to bad-tasting medicines will in no wise
interfere with their action, while it often facilitates the
administration of the disagreeable dose. The majority of bad-tasting
medicines are now put up in the form of chocolate-flavored candy
tablets.

TEMPERATURES AND PULSE

The normal temperature of a baby is 98.5 to 99 F. in the rectum. After
shaking the mercury of the thermometer down below the 97 mark it is
well lubricated with vaseline and then carefully, gently, pushed into
the rectum for about an inch and a half or two inches, and left there
for three minutes before removing.

Mothers should exercise self-control in taking the temperature, for
nothing is gained by allowing a panicky fear to seize you should the
mercury register higher than you anticipated. Notify your physician
when the temperature registers above 100 F.

The respirations of a child are fairly regular and rhythmic and occur
about forty times per minute during the first month of life and about
thirty times per minute during the remainder of the year. From one to
two years, twenty-six to twenty-eight is the average. Breathing is
somewhat irregular when the child is awake and may be a bit slower
when asleep. Before the baby is born the fetal pulse is about 150. At
birth it ranges from 130 to 140. During the first month the pulse is
found to be from 120 to 140. By the sixth month it gets down to 120 or
130, and from that on to a year the normal pulse beat of the baby is
about 120. The pulse is influenced very much by exercise and is often
increased by crying or nursing or any other excitement.

FEVER

Children get fever very easily--the digestive disturbance of
overeating, constipation, a slight bilious attack--all produce fever
which disappears quite as suddenly as it came. The first thing to do
under such circumstances is to withhold food, give plenty of water to
drink, produce a brisk movement of the bowel by giving a dose of
castor oil, give a cleansing enema, and treat the fever as follows:

After removing all of the clothes from the child, place him in a warm
blanket and then prepare a sponge bath which may be equal parts of
alcohol and water; expose one portion of the body at a time and apply
the water and alcohol first to one arm and then to the other arm, the
chest, one leg, the other leg, the back and then the buttocks. Do not
dry the part but allow evaporation to take place, and this,
accompanied by the cooling of the