er two days' use of the mixture, one of the
following powders should be given twice a day, accompanied with one dose
daily of the mixture:--

Grey powder 20 grains.
Powdered rhubarb 15 grains.
Scammony 10 grains. Mix.

Divide into twelve powders, for one year; eight powders, from one to
two; and six powders, from two to six years old. After that age, double
the strength, by giving the quantity of two powders at once.

2531. It is sometimes customary to apply borax and honey to the mouth
for thrush; but it is always better to treat the disease
constitutionally rather than locally. The first steps, therefore, to be
adopted are, to remove or correct the exciting cause--the mother's milk
or food; allay irritation by a warm bath and the castor-oil mixture,
followed by and conjoined with the powders.

2532. To those, however, who wish to try the honey process, the best
preparation to use is the following:-Rub down one ounce of honey with
two drachms of tincture of myrrh, and apply it to the lips and mouth
every four or six hours.

2533. It is a popular belief, and one most devoutly cherished by many
nurses and elderly persons, that everybody must, at some time of their
life, between birth and death, have an attack of thrush, and if not in
infancy, or prime of life, it will surely attack them on their
death-bed, in a form more malignant than if the patient had been
affected with the malady earlier; the black thrush with which they are
then reported to be affected being, in all probability, the petechae or
purple spots that characterize the worst form, and often the last stage,
of typhoid fever.

2534. In general, very little medicine is needed in this disease of the
thrush--an alterative powder, or a little magnesia, given once or twice,
being all, with the warm bath, that, in the great majority of cases, is
needed to restore the mucous membrane to health. As thrush is caused by
an excess of heat, or over-action in the lining membrane of the stomach
and bowels, whatever will counteract this state, by throwing the heat on
the surface, must materially benefit, if not cure, the disease: and that
means every mother has at hand, in the form of a _warm bath_. After the
application of this, a little magnesia to correct the acidity existing
along the surface of the mucous membrane, is often all that is needed to
throw the system into such a state as will effect its own cure. This
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