. If vomiting continues
the milk may diluted with lime water or vichy water. The child should
drink water or vichy water freely. No starchy foods, or fats, or sugars
should be allowed. The bowels should be kept open with calomel,
one-tenth of a grain every hour until ten are taken, to be followed by
citrate of magnesia every morning. If the pain is severe it may be
relieved by a mustard paste or a turpentine poultice. The child should
be given acid hydrochloric diluted, eight drops in one-half glass of
water, ten minutes before each meal--and kept on it for at least one
month.

INTESTINAL WORMS

There are three types of intestinal worms; they are known as the
round-worm, the thread-worm, and the tape worm.

Round-Worm.--The round-worm is usually found in children of the
run-about age. It is never seen in infancy. It occupies the small or
upper intestine, and is from four to ten inches long. If there are
round-worms in the bowel, there are usually a number of them and there
may be hundreds.

Symptoms.--Round-worms give no definite symptoms. The only possible
way to tell if they are present is actually to see them in the stools of
the child. They are of a light gray color.

It is reasonable to expect that a child suffering from worms will have
symptoms of abdominal distress from time to time; indigestion with colic
and much gas may be present; children lose their appetites and are
nervous and restless; sleep is disturbed; they may grind their teeth and
talk in their sleep, and they may pick their noses unnecessarily during
the day. These symptoms may, however, accompany other conditions when no
worms are present in the bowel. My observation has been that in children
in whom worms were present the nervous symptoms were distinctly
accentuated. They are unreliable children; they seem well to-day and
peevish to-morrow; they complain of headaches, dizziness, and chilly
feelings. They are hysterical, noisy, uncontrollable. A child with these
symptoms should be suspected of having worms and if no cause can be
found to explain his temperamental vagaries he should be treated for
worms. I have cured a number of children of excessive nervousness by
giving them medicine for worms when no worms were present. Such results
can only be explained on the assumption that these children were
suffering from intestinal auto-toxemia or self-poisoning, and the
thorough disinfection of the bowel apparently stopped the process by
ridding