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Of the many astidngent medicines employed by physicians, under whose advice, when it can be had, they had better be taken, we may mention here, as possibly wanted in home practice, chalk mixture and tincture of catechu. A desperate and exhausting diarrhoea, which resists all such treatment as has now been spoken of, may call for the use of a laudanum and starch enema. This is introduced with a small syringe, even for a grown person ; the object being to have it stay in the bowel ; just the opposite of what we want from a purgative injection. A syringe holding an ounce will do for this purpose for an adult ; half an ounce for a child. Two or three drops of laudanum, with starch, made not too thick to run, will be the infantile dose for such an enema (even less for a babe under a year old) ; thirty or forty drops of laudanum, with less than an ounce of starch, for a grown person. Dysentery differs from diarrhoea, in having many small and bloody passages, with straining or bearing down, as well as pain. (Sometimes there is abdominal pain with or before each passage in diarrhoea.) Sick Stomach. As this occurs under a variety of circumstances, the main treatment of every case must depend upon its nature and cause. We may name, however, several remedies which will do good in most cases of nausea or vomiting, and which, therefore, it will be safe to use while awaiting medical advice. Ice is one of these. It may be taken into the mouth in small pieces, and melted before swallowing. This is helpful in nine out of ten instances of sick stomach, and in the tenth case will do no harm. Lime-water is beneficial in most of such cases ; when nourishment is needed, it may be given in equal parts with milk, from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful of each. Effervescing waters (mineral- water, soda-water, Apollinaris, etc.), made cool with ice, very often assist in relieving nausea. When sea-sick, iced mineral-water will be likely to help more than anything else. When weakness is present, teaspoonful doses of brandy or (the best) whiskey may be appropriate. The smallness of the dose is here especially important, and it need not often be repeated more than three or four times, at intervals of half an hour or so, unless great exhaustion is impending. Very seldom ought anything alcoholic to be ventured upon as a remedy without the express advice of a medical authority. Children's doses, of such and of all strong medicines should be very small Ten drops of brandy or whiskey will be enough at a time (if needed at all) for a child of two or three years, where a teaspoonful would be given to a grown or nearly grown person. Aromatic Spirit of Ammonia is reviving to one who is faint with sickness of stomach. It is antacid as well as stimulant. Soda (bicarbonate of sodium) is antacid, but not stimulant. It is generally very comfortable to a disturbed stomach. Warming stomachic doses for nausea are ginger, cloves, cinnamon, and other aromatics (spicy articles) in small doses. Large draughts of ginger, hoarhound, chamomile, or boneset tea, or even of clove or cinnamon infusion, will bring on vomiting. This is an instructive example of the opposite effects, often produced by the same thing, in small and in large doses.