in produced by the movement. Dentition, or cutting the teeth, is
attended with many of these symptoms. Measles, thrush, scarlatina,
croup, hooping-cough, and other childish complaints, are all preceded by
well-known symptoms, which may be alleviated and rendered less virulent
by simple remedies instantaneously applied.

2405. _Dentition_ is usually the first serious trouble, bringing many
other disorders in its train. The symptoms are most perceptible to the
mother: the child sucks feebly, and with gums hot, inflamed, and
swollen. In this case, relief is yielded by rubbing them from time to
time with a little of Mrs. Johnson's soothing syrup, a valuable and
perfectly safe medicine. Selfish and thoughtless nurses, and mothers
too, sometimes give cordials and sleeping-draughts, whose effects are
too well known.

2406. _Convulsion Fits_ sometimes follow the feverish restlessness
produced by these causes; in which case a hot bath should be
administered without delay, and the lower parts of the body rubbed, the
bath being as hot as it can be without scalding the tender skin; at the
same time, the doctor should be sent for immediately, for no nurse
should administer medicine in this case, unless the fits have been
repeated and the doctor has left directions with her how to act.

2407. _Croup_ is one of the most alarming diseases of childhood; it is
accompanied with a hoarse, croaking, ringing cough, and comes on very
suddenly, and most so in strong, robust children. A very hot bath should
be instantly administered, followed by an emetic, either in the form of
tartar-emetic, croup-powder, or a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha, wrapping
the body warmly up in flannel after the bath. The slightest delay in
administering the bath, or the emetic, may be fatal; hence, the
importance of nurses about very young children being acquainted with the
symptoms.

2408. _Hooping-Cough_ is generally preceded by the moaning noise during
sleep, which even adults threatened with the disorder cannot avoid: it
is followed by violent fits of coughing, which little can be done to
relieve. A child attacked by this disorder should be kept as much as
possible in the fresh, pure air, but out of draughts, and kept warm, and
supplied with plenty of nourishing food. Many fatal diseases flow from
this scourge of childhood, and a change to purer air, if possible,
should follow convalescence.

2409. _Worms_ are the torment of some children: the symptoms are, an