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Sometimes, with constipation, or even, especially in summer, with commencing diarrhoea, small doses of magnesia are composing to the stomach. The same is true of very small doses of calomel (1/60 to 1/4 of a grain), which, however, belongs to the physician's rather than to the home list of medi- cines. Still, out in the country, where advice cannot always be had in time, a family medicine-chest may very well have in it, among other things only for possible or occasional use, a small box or package of 1/60 grain calomel-powders . They may be serviceable particularly at an early stage of summer complaint in children. Paregoric is the only other medicine needing here to be mentioned among those likely to assist in quieting a nauseated stomach. Outside, an early remedy for vomiting may, in any case, safely be, a mustard-plaster over the pit of the stomach. For a young child, a spice-plaster will, for this purpose, be preferable ; made by mixing together one or two teaspoonfuls each of several spices — as ginger, cloves, and cinnamon, or half as much red pepper, with a similar amount of wheat or Indian flour ; wetting these with whiskey, and spreading them on a piece of muslin or thin flannel. This, when laid over the stomach, should be covered with a piece of oiled silk or oiled paper or rubber-cloth, to retain its moisture for a longer time. Indigestion. A much overloaded stomach is best relieved by being made to throw out its contents under the action of an emetic. This is, however, a harsh remedy, not nowadays often resorted to. Ordinary indigestion requires, for one thing, to give the stomach rest. Let no food be taken for a number of hours ; if the patient is strong enough,- not for a whole day. Make sure that the bowels are open ', to carry off the refuse of undigested or half-digested food. If the stomach is still unsettled , the aids to nature which we may resort to are those just above-mentioned, as suitable for cases of nausea and vomiting. Small and few doses, however, are likely to be necessary for common attacks of indigestion. If, with these, there are dizziness, headache, a yellow tongne or eyes, and a bitter taste in the morning on awaking — a set of symptoms designated usually as biliousness — small doses of the old-fashioned blue pill may be reasonably and safely given. Practically speaking, of blue pill, a small dose for indigestion, with signs of participation by the liver, will be one grain at night, and again the next morning ; and perhaps again the second night. Compound gentian pills may be taken for two or three days, if entire relief does not come sooner. This is the prescription : Take of blue mass, five grains ; powder of rhubarb root, and extract of gentian, each twenty grains ; oil of cloves, four drops. Mix these together, and divide the whole into twenty pills. One or two should be taken at once. When there is lingering indigestion, after an attack, with some flatulence, the bowels not being sufiiciently free, j^et not requiring a strong purge, two of the above pills may be taken, twice daily, for two or three days ; not longer at one time, on account of their containing a small amount of mercury. Continued Weak Digestion.