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DIAGNOSIS OF MOUTH AFFECTIONS. I49
mild purgatives in small doses. For acid dejections, calcined
magnesia ; or small doses of sulphate of magnesia and tincture of
rhubarb ; or of pulv. ipecac, pulv. rhubarb and bicarbonate of soda ;
or castor oil in doses of 5ss. For infancy diarrhoeas Dr. Thomas
claims excellent results from the following mixtures in gastric or
gastro-intestinal dyspepsia, characterized by nausea, vomiting,
flatulence and diarrhoea with non-slimy, fetid, yellowish or green-
ish stools. ]^. Lactic acid, oj- simple syrup, ov ; water,
oiijss. M. Sig.— One drachm every quarter to half hour after
meals. (See Dr. James W. White's recipes under opium,
chloroform, aromatic sulphuric acid and bromide of potassium.)
For convulsions: the administration of an anaesthetic to abort
or* control the spasmodic movements ; hydrate of chloral, gr. v to
X, according to age, dissolved in two or three drachms of water,
and injected into the rectum ; or the administration of bromide
of potassium; use of hot foot bath, to which is added a small
quantity of mustard ; the warm bath ; and when cerebral conges-
tion is threatened, cold applications to the head.
According to Dr. A. Brothers: i. Dentition is rarely, if ever,
a direct cause of death.
2. Precocious or retarded dentition may occur in otherwise
healthy children or in entire families.
3. The period of eruption of the first teeth occurs, in healthy,
breast-fed children, at six and a half months in the vast majority
of cases, and first dentition is usually complete at thirty months.
4. Dentition is distinctly retarded in the first as well as the
later teeth in children brought up on a mixed or artificial diet.
5. Congenital diseases—tuberculosis, syphilis, endocarditis
seem to have a retarding influence on dentition.
6. Rachitis has a very pronounced retarding influence on the
whole course of dentition.
7. Scrofulosis seems to hasten the eruption of the first teeth,
but does not affect the later teeth,
8. In cases of undeveloped brain—idiocy— there is a marked
retardation during the entire period of dentition.
9. Chronic diseases have a retarding power over the first teeth,
but do not seem to influence the later teeth.
DIAGNOSIS OF MOUTH AFFECTIONS. I49
mild purgatives in small doses. For acid dejections, calcined
magnesia ; or small doses of sulphate of magnesia and tincture of
rhubarb ; or of pulv. ipecac, pulv. rhubarb and bicarbonate of soda ;
or castor oil in doses of 5ss. For infancy diarrhoeas Dr. Thomas
claims excellent results from the following mixtures in gastric or
gastro-intestinal dyspepsia, characterized by nausea, vomiting,
flatulence and diarrhoea with non-slimy, fetid, yellowish or green-
ish stools. ]^. Lactic acid, oj- simple syrup, ov ; water,
oiijss. M. Sig.— One drachm every quarter to half hour after
meals. (See Dr. James W. White's recipes under opium,
chloroform, aromatic sulphuric acid and bromide of potassium.)
For convulsions: the administration of an anaesthetic to abort
or* control the spasmodic movements ; hydrate of chloral, gr. v to
X, according to age, dissolved in two or three drachms of water,
and injected into the rectum ; or the administration of bromide
of potassium; use of hot foot bath, to which is added a small
quantity of mustard ; the warm bath ; and when cerebral conges-
tion is threatened, cold applications to the head.
According to Dr. A. Brothers: i. Dentition is rarely, if ever,
a direct cause of death.
2. Precocious or retarded dentition may occur in otherwise
healthy children or in entire families.
3. The period of eruption of the first teeth occurs, in healthy,
breast-fed children, at six and a half months in the vast majority
of cases, and first dentition is usually complete at thirty months.
4. Dentition is distinctly retarded in the first as well as the
later teeth in children brought up on a mixed or artificial diet.
5. Congenital diseases—tuberculosis, syphilis, endocarditis
seem to have a retarding influence on dentition.
6. Rachitis has a very pronounced retarding influence on the
whole course of dentition.
7. Scrofulosis seems to hasten the eruption of the first teeth,
but does not affect the later teeth,
8. In cases of undeveloped brain—idiocy— there is a marked
retardation during the entire period of dentition.
9. Chronic diseases have a retarding power over the first teeth,
but do not seem to influence the later teeth.
