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To cut slices of lean fresh beef or mutton, put it in a bowl, and pour a pint of
boiling water on it, and let it set close to the fire for an hour, is very good
to give children occasionally, with but little salt; the stomach will sometimes
retain this when other things are rejected. As thirst is an attendant on this
disease, much salt should be avoided in all their food. Every thing about a sick
child should be kept clean, and its clothes well aired before changing them. If
it is too ill to carry out of doors, have it changed from one room to another,
and the apartment it left well aired.
Children who are afflicted with this disease, sometimes crave fruit. Ripe
peaches, fresh from the tree, or ripe apples, baked or roasted before the fire,
may be occasionally administered in small quantities with perfect safety.
To make toast-water, the bread should be toasted on both sides very dry, and
boiling water poured on it.
I hope these hints will be useful to persons that cannot procure a physician,
which is often the case in the country.
Mustard Whey.
Boil a pint of milk, and the same of water, with an ounce and a half of bruised
mustard seed, until the curd separates--when strain the whey. This is a most
desirable way of administering mustard; it warms and invigorates the system,
promotes the different secretions, and in the low state of nervous fevers, will
often supply the place of wine. It is also of use in chronic rheumatism, palsy
and dropsy.
Red Mixture.
Take sixteen grains of powdered rhubarb, thirty of soda, fifty of prepared
chalk, and two drops of the
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