CAMPHOR

when applied externally, produces redne if under two years of age and half a teaspoonful more for | of the skin, and acts as a mild counter-irritant. For thie each year that the child is over two, until a dose of three | purpose camphorated oil or compound camphor liniment teaspoonfals has been reached. The brandy should be | should be used. When taken internally, camphor relieves a in two tablespoonfuls of hot water. Any part of | flatulence and ects as a heart stimulant. It should be burnt surface which is exposed to the air should be at | taken in the form of spirits of camphor (do so, ten drops) ones protected by clean rag or unstarched muslin, spread | in milk or on sugar, but not in water. In large doses with vaseline or soaked in olive or carron oil, and failing | camphor is poisonous. Though so often used in tooth this by flour shaken from a dredger. Nothing further | powders, it probably does harm by making the ename! corel es till the doctor 2 eee of - of the teeth crack. water y, as it may be decided to place the i alignant growth, having the propert child in a hot bath, when the doctor arrives, in order to eteing: ties to cuaidey growths exactl like all pie ts Mw combat shock and soak off the burnt clothing. (2) Treat- | organs, The tumour grows faster than the new blood ment when alight. While remedies are being prepared the | ve els required to nourish it, with the result that in time burnt part should be plunged into cold water. Cotton | the tumour mortifies, the skin over it breaks down, and wool and a bandage should be applied, or failing this a | 4 foul ulcerating wound is produced which gradually wears mixture of whitening and vinegar, or flour or oil on rag may | out the sufferer. The disease seems on the increase. The be used. Next day boric or eucalyptus ointment spread on | ¢iyse of cancer in spite of much research is not yet disclean linen should be applied, and if the burnt surface is | covered. Certain facts are, however, known. Heredity caked with flour, a bread poultice should be applied first, | plays some part, though the healthiest may be attacked; as this will leave the surface clean. Any blisters that form age also wt aisle the liability to attack. One form of should be pricked. (3) Treatment of sealds of mouth and | cancer, known as sarcoma, attacks specially the very youn; throat. ‘This accident results from children drinking from | and tho very old; whilst the other form of cancer, car the kettle. The doctor should bo sent for aud tracheotomy | cinoma, is rare before thirty and only common between 9 Shaye nece ary owing to the subsequent swelling | forty and sixty. (Many of tho higher animals are liable of the throat obstructing breathing. No attempt should | to the disease). The disease is most com in on in wooded be made to treat the burnt mouth before the doctor arrives, | districts and along the banks of rivers, like the Thames, ae a should be wrapped in a shaw! and nursed by | which flow throagh a clay district and flood their banks ‘ oo. often. Many examples are now on record of houses, in [s. 340]