aspoonful sweet spirits of nitre in one-third glass of
water, for baby. Increase the dose for older children or adults. This
warms the stomach, and is highly recommended."

7. Wind Colic, Cloves for.--"Make an infusion of 1 or 2 ounces of cloves.
Cloves are warming, cordial and strengthening; they expel wind, and are
good for the colic." This treatment has been known to give many a fretful
baby a good night's sleep, and will be found very useful in homes where
babies have this disease.

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PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT.--Temporary relief is obtained in attacks of colic
by emptying the bowels of irritating materials, either by an enema or
medicine. Peppermint, anise seed, catnip are effective, but may be harmful
if continued long. Gin and whisky, warm, are good when the gas is in the
stomach and upper bowel. It is always best to mix them with a solution
like the following:

Bicarbonate of soda 40 grains
Aromatic spirits of ammonia 30 drops
Enough peppermint water to make 2 ounces

Put one teaspoonful in a cup of hot water for a child one year old.

The following is good to move the bowels:

Bicarbonate of soda 40 grains
Aromatic syrup of rhubarb 4 drams
Syrup of senna 5 drams
Syrup of orange 1 ounce

One teaspoonful two or three times daily is needed in sour gassy stomach,
with constipation or foul smelling stools. Fortunately such medicine is
not often needed if the mother is careful, or baby is carefully
bottle-fed. When there is vomiting with the colic and the stools contain
curds the food is too strong. The nursing baby should be given one ounce
of warm water before nursing, and the food for the bottle-fed baby should
be made weaker by going back one formula. Sometimes peptonizing the food
for a short time will do. This is very good when the proteids (curds) are
hard for the baby to digest.

EARACHE.

Many young babies suffer from this trouble without the cause being even
suspected. It may come after a cold, an attack of bronchitis or pneumonia,
and sometimes during teething. It often accompanies scarlet fever and
measles. The child screams, presses his head against his mother or nurse,
pulls at his ear as if it hurt him. If you press in front of the ear the
baby jumps as if in great pain and cries aloud. The pain is likely to be
continuous and prolonged.

What can I do for it? Heat is the