CARING FOR BURNS, BRUISES, CUTS, WOUNDS, ETC., IN BABY.

For Burns.—­Keep away the air from the burn.  Dust soda on the burn if the skin is not too much broken, and wrap it up in clean linen.  Olive oil, linseed oil, is better, or cream should be put on if it is more severe.  Then a layer of clean linen and then a thin layer of cotton wool.  It must not be too warmly dressed.  An ointment called pineoline is excellent for burns.

For a bruise or bump.—­Apply cloths hot or cold,—­you can do this with flannel wrung out of very cold or hot water.  Ice may be wrapped up in cotton and put on the part.

Cuts.—­Wash it with clean cold water, and bind it up with clean linen.  If it bleeds much, let it bleed for a few seconds, and then stop it with a pad of clean linen pressed firmly on the part and held there until it stops.

Splinters.—­Remove them and dress as for any other wound.

Poisoning.—­Children will get hold of poison, and mother had better have antidotes, etc., to use in case of necessity.  Rat poison, fly poison, matches, etc.

Treatment.—­First use emetics; mustard and luke-warm water or one teaspoonful of alum in a glass of luke-warm water; a little salt and warm water; ten to fifteen drops syrup of ipecac, and then warm water.  For fly poison, give one-half ounce of olive oil in same amount of lime-water, and repeat it every five or six minutes, for five or six doses, and then white of an egg, and keep child warm.  Antidote for arsenic is freshly precipitated, sesquioxide of iron.  Go to druggist and tell him to prepare it; tell him what it is wanted for, and give this in doses of an ounce at a time as the oil was given.

For poisoning from sucking matches.—­Vomit the child freely, but do not give anything oily, as milk or egg, as this dissolves the phosphorus.

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Oxalic acid is sometimes used for cleaning purposes, and mistaken for epsom salts.  Give an emetic and lime-water.

For carbolic acid.—­Give an emetic, and then white of an egg and epsom salts.

Overdose of soothing syrup.—­Keep baby awake, slap with wet towel, etc.; or walk him about if he is old enough, inject strong black coffee in the rectum.  Keep up the strength with stimulants.

PROPRIETARY FOODS.

These foods are sometimes of temporary use.  As many of them contain very little fat, they may be used in cases of illness where fat cannot be borne.  Some of these contain malt sugar, and when the baby is constipated this kind is useful when added to milk.  Others can be made up of water only, and are useful and handy where it is impossible to obtain fresh milk.  In cases of diarrhea the flour foods made up with water are very useful.  Milk at that time acts as a poison.  Some of the best foods on the market are the following—­Condensed milk, Mellin’s food, Horlick’s Malted milk, Nestle’s food, Imperial granum, Just’s food, Carnrick’s soluble food, Ridge’s food, peptogenic milk powder, Lactated food, Eskay’s, Albumenized food, cereal milk, Borden’s food.