rom the eating of uncooked
vegetables, such as are used in salads.

The disease is manifested by "sallow skin, paleness, headache, swollen
abdomen and sores on the legs." Little swollen places where the worm
enters the skin may be seen on the flesh. The condition yields readily
to treatment. If a child is discovered scratching his feet (especially
in the southern part of this country), he should be taken at once to a
physician.

DISORDERED STOMACH

At the first symptom of a disordered stomach take all food from the
baby and give him rice water prepared by throwing a cupful of
well-washed rice into a kettle of boiling water and allowing it to
continue to boil for a couple of hours. The water which is strained
off is rice water, ready for use after it is cooled. This may be given
to the child at the meal hour in the place of his regular food. It
should be kept in a glass-covered jar in the ice box. A dose of castor
oil, according to the age, should be administered before the feed. The
bowels should be washed out and boiled water given freely between the
meals of rice water. For a day or two (twenty-four to forty-eight
hours), the child should be fed only this rice water, or until the
temperature returns to normal and he appears very hungry, at which
time milk, which has been boiled for five minutes, may be added to the
rice water, first in one-half ounce quantities and gradually
increased. Each day a little more milk is added until baby is taking
his regular food again.

Many a death and many acute attacks of summer complaint are avoided by
the quick use of castor oil, and by withholding food and stopping the
use of milk as soon as the child becomes ill.

STOMATITIS OR THRUSH

Thrush is evidenced by fretfulness or crying on attempting to nurse.
On examination of the mouth it is found to be hot and very tender and
covered with little white specks which, if looked at under the
microscope, appear to be a fungus growth. If scratched off, the mucous
membrane bleeds easily. Thrush often occurs during a fever or in
connection with other diseases, and is often due to neglect and lack
of cleanliness about the bottles, nipples, etc. Taken in time it is
quickly cured. An immediate dose of castor oil or milk of magnesia is
indicated, and the use of a mouth wash which will be prescribed by the
physician. If neglected, it may become ulcerous or gangrenous, which
is a very serious condition. Everything pertaining to the feed