es and cracks in the tongue indicate derangement of
the stomach.

THE CAUSES of stomatitis, in nursing infants, are unhealthy milk, or
effete matter, which, for lack of proper care and cleanliness,
accumulates upon the nipple. In older children, improper diet,
irritants, debility of the digestive functions, or hereditary syphilitic
taint, disorder the blood and induce local inflammation.

TREATMENT. Locally, use a wash of golden seal or gold thread sweetened
with maple-sugar, and rendered slightly alkaline with borax or
saleratus. Also use a very weak, alkaline tea, or one of slippery-elm
flour, to obviate the acridity of the secretions. If the sores do not
heal, constitutional treatment may be required, as the use of the Golden
Medical Discovery. The family physician should be consulted if the sore
mouth resists all these remedial measures.

NURSING SORE MOUTH. (STOMATITIS MATERNA.)

During the period of nursing, and sometimes in the latter months of
pregnancy, women are liable to a peculiar variety of sore mouth. The
soreness is sometimes so great that, although the appetite may be
ravenous, the patient cannot eat. When this condition extends to the
stomach and bowels, symptoms of a very grave character appear, and the
disease, by interfering with the process of nutrition, causes emaciation
and debility, and in extreme cases, death. It is a strange affection,
nearly always disappearing upon weaning the child, though this course is
not absolutely necessary. It appears to depend upon a hepatic, or
gastric derangement, in connection with a vitiated condition of the
blood, but how this is brought about is unknown.

SYMPTOMS. The disease sometimes comes on suddenly, at others more
slowly. The fact that the woman is either pregnant or nursing, is of
importance in forming a diagnosis. At first there is a severe, scalding
sensation of the tongue, mouth, and fauces, with pain, which is
sometimes intense. The color of the tongue is often pink, or a light
red, while the mouth is generally of a deeper hue. This stinging, biting
sensation is accompanied by a profuse, watery discharge from the mouth,
which seems extremely hot and acrid, causing excoriation whenever it
comes in contract with the face or chin. The appetite is good, sometimes
ravenous, but food or drinks, except of the blandest character, occasion
such intense pain that the patient avoids their use. Ulceration occurs
after a little time. The bowels are genera