les. The only treatment that can be
given in the home is to keep all of the paralytic portions of the body
very warm by external heat, care being taken to avoid burning, and
secure medical advice. Often, later in the course of the disease, by
the aid of crutches and braces, the child can be taught to go to
school and to get around the house about his little duties.

The slight facial paralysis which is so often seen in babies that have
been delivered with forceps, usually clears up in a few days or at the
latest in a few weeks or months.

SAINT VITUS' DANCE

Saint Virus' dance (chorea) is a peculiar disorder seen in nervous
children, and which usually clears up in a few weeks or months under
proper treatment. It is characterized by irregular jerkings pretty
much all over the body, so that the child staggers as he walks, drops
his food at the table, and executes many other noticeably abnormal
movements. The child should be taken out of school at once and removed
from association with children who might make sport of him or
otherwise annoy him and thus increase these irregular jerkings. He
should at once be put under the direction of competent medical
authority. Simple food, colon hygiene, more or less complete rest, and
freedom from annoying circumstances, will usually bring about a speedy
recovery.

CONGENITAL DISORDERS

_Water on the Brain_ is characterized by an enlarged head due to an
increased accumulation of fluid within the cranium. While the face
remains small the head greatly increases in size so that oftentimes it
must be braced while the child is compelled to remain in a wheel
chair. The mentality is usually fairly normal, but the enormous weight
of the head compels the life-long occupancy of a wheel chair.

_Deaf-Mutism._ The child born deaf pays no attention whatever to
sounds. An intellectual expression is seen on his face and by six
months he is able to do all that a normal baby can do with the
exception of hearing. The child should early be taken to an ear
specialist in the endeavor, if possible, to correct the defect of
hearing. Such little ones who are destined to a life without sound,
should be given every opportunity to learn to read the lips and to
secure a good education--to be taught a vocation where eyesight is of
more value than hearing. Special institutions are in existence today
which can take these deaf mutes when small and so teach them to make
audible sounds that they can make th