SIGNS OF DISEASE IN CHILDREN.—­In the case of a baby not yet able to talk, it must cry when it is ill.  The colic makes a baby cry loud, long, and passionately, and shed tears—­stopping for a moment and beginning again.

If the chest is affected, it gives one sharp cry, breaking off immediately, as if crying hurt it.

If the head is affected, it cries in sharp, piercing shrieks, with low moans and wails between.  Or there may be quiet dozing, and startings between.

It is easy enough to perceive, where a child is attacked by disease, that there has some change taken place; for either its skin will be dry and hot, its appetite gone; it is stupidly sleepy, or fretful or crying; it is thirsty, or pale and languid, or in some way betrays that something is wrong.  When a child vomits, or has a diarrhoea, or is costive and feverish, it is owing to some derangement, and needs attention.  But these various symptoms may continue for a day or two before the nature of the disease can be determined.  A warm bath, warm drinks, etc., can do no harm, and may help to determine the case.  On coming out of the bath, and being well rubbed with the hand, the skin will show symptoms of rash, if it is a skin disease which has commenced.  By the appearance of the rash, the nature of the disease can be learned.  Measles are in patches, dark red, and come out first about the face.  If scarlet fever is impending, the skin will look a deep pink all over the body, though most so about the neck and face.  Chicken-pox shows fever, but not so much running at the nose, and appearances of cold, as in measles, nor is there as much of a cough.  Besides, the spots are smaller, and do not run much together, and are more diffused over the whole surface of the skin; and enlarge into blisters in a day or two.

HOW TO CURE CONSUMPTION.—­Take one tablespoonful of tar, and the yolks of three hen’s eggs, beat them well together.  Dose, one tablespoonful morning, noon and night.

CROUP, REMEDY FOR IN ONE MINUTE.—­This remedy is simply alum.  Take a knife or grater, and shave or grate off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum; mix it with about twice its quantity of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer as quickly as possible.  Its effects will be truly magical, as almost instantaneous relief will be afforded.

CHOLERA REMEDY, HARTSHORNE’S.—­Take of chloroform, tincture of opium, spirits of camphor, and spirits of aromatic ammonia, each one and one-half fluid drachms; creosote, three drops; oil of cinnamon, eight drops; brandy, two fluid drachms.  Dilute a teaspoonful with a wine-glass of water, and give two teaspoonfuls every five minutes, followed by a lump of ice.

CURE FOR DANDRUFF.—­Good mild soap is one of the safest remedies, and