n piece
of flannel.

How to Prepare and Use the Mustard Pack.--The child is stripped and
laid upon a blanket, and the trunk is surrounded by a large towel or
sheet saturated with mustard water. This is prepared as follows: Take
one tablespoonful of English mustard and dissolve it in one quart of
water, slightly warmed. Saturate a towel in this mixture and apply to
the body of the child while it is dripping. The patient is then rolled
in a blanket. Keep the child in this pack for ten or fifteen minutes.
The mustard pack is not as good as the mustard bath, but it is all that
is necessary in a number of various conditions. The physician will, of
course, decide these matters. It is simply the duty of the mother to
know how to carry out the physician's instructions.

The Turpentine Stupe.--Take a piece of flannel, big enough to cover
the area which it is desired to affect, wring it out of as hot water as
it is possible. Upon this sprinkle twenty drops of spirits of
turpentine. Place the stupe wherever it is desired and cover with a
piece of oiled silk or dry flannel. The turpentine stupe is mostly used
in pain of the abdominal cavity. In colic from acute indigestion it is a
very convenient means of quieting the child by allaying the pain.

Care should be taken not to allow this form of application to remain on
too long. Take it off when the skin is red. For continuous use it is not
as good as the mustard paste.

OILED SILK. WHAT IT IS, AND WHY IT IS USED

Oiled silk is sold in the drug stores by the yard. It is one yard wide.
It is used to cover any local application to prevent evaporation into
the air or to prevent the clothing from absorbing the medicament. If a
liniment is applied on cloth to effect a certain result, it may take
some time to do its work. If the wet cloth is covered with the clothing,
the clothing will absorb the medicine quicker than the body will and
thereby defeat the object in view, in addition to rendering the
clothing wet and nasty. If the application is covered with oiled silk it
cannot escape into the clothing, because the oiled silk is impervious.
The body will be compelled to absorb the medicine and consequently
results will be quicker and more certain. Many liniments are expensive;
to permit them to be absorbed by the clothing is needless waste It is
therefore economical to apply the oiled silk.

DISEASES OF CHILDREN

[Illustration: By permission of Henry H. Goddard.]

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