[244]. Sir Charles Locock, in a Letter to the Author.
[245]. Infusion of senna may be procured of any respectable druggist. It will take about one or two tablespoonfuls, or even more, of the infusion (according to the age of the child and the obstinacy of the bowels), to act as an aperient. Of course you yourself will be able, from time to time, as the need arises, to add the milk and the sugar, and thus to make it palatable. It ought to be given warm, so as the more to resemble tea.
[246]. A Manual of Practical Therapeutics. By Edward John Waring, F.R.C.S. London: John Churchill and Sons.
[247]. One part of bran to three parts of flour, mixed together and made into bread.
[249]. An enema apparatus is an important requisite in every nursery; it may be procured of any respectable surgical-instrument-maker. The india-rubber enema bottle is, for a child’s use, a great improvement on the old syringe, as it is not so likely to get out of order, and, moreover, is more easily used.
[250]. Blackwood, December, 1861.
[251]. If any of my medical brethren should perchance read these Conversations, I respectfully and earnestly recommend them to take more pains in making medicines for children pleasant and palatable. I am convinced that, in the generality of instances, provided a little more care and thought were bestowed on the subject, it may be done; and what an amount of both trouble and annoyance it would save! It is really painful to witness the struggles and cries of a child when nauseous medicine is to be given; the passion and the excitement often do more harm than the medicine does good.
[252]. George M‘Donald, M.A.
[253]. Nurses at these times ought to wear slippers, and not shoes.