In like manner there is the dog-elder, dog's-mercury, dog's-chamomile, and the dog-rose, each a spurious form of a plant quite distinct; while on the other hand we have the dog's-tooth grass, from the sharp-pointed shoots of its underground stem, and the dog-grass (Triticum caninu), because given to dogs as an aperient.

As the first milk that is secreted contains a large amount of the saline elements, and is thin and innutritious, it is most admirably adapted for the purpose Nature designed it to fulfil,that of an aperient; but which, unfortunately, it is seldom permitted, in our artificial mode of living, to perform. 2481.

This practice, which few mothers will object to, is easily effected by the parent, when such a course is necessary for the child, taking either a dose of castor-oil, half an ounce of tasteless salts (the phosphate of soda), one or two teaspoonfuls of magnesia, a dose of lenitive electuary, manna, or any mild and simple aperient, which, almost before it can have taken effect on herself, will exhibit its action on her child. 2482.

An hour after the bath, it may be necessary to give an aperient powder, possibly also to repeat the dose for once or twice every three hours; in which case the following prescription is to be employed.

As an aperient medicine for the mother, the best thing she can take is a dessert-spoonful of carbonate of magnesia once or twice a day, in a cup of cold water; and every second day, for two or three times, an aperient pill. 2530.

As an aperient medicine for the mother, the best thing she can take is a dessert-spoonful of carbonate of magnesia once or twice a day, in a cup of cold water; and every second day, for two or three times, an aperient pill. 2530.

This, with the precaution of changing the child's food, or, when it lives on the mother, of correcting the quality of the milk by changing her own diet, and, by means of an antacid or aperient, improving the state of the secretion.

It is customary, and always advisable, to give the child a mild aperient powder one or two days before inserting the lymph in the arm; and should measles, scarlet fever, or any other disease arise during the progress of the pustule, the child, when recovered, should be re-vaccinated, and the lymph taken from its arm on no account used for vaccinating purposes. 2545.

In some children the inflammation and swelling of the arm is excessive, and extremely painful, and the fever, about the ninth or tenth day, very high; the pustule, therefore, at that time, should sometimes be opened, the arm fomented every two hours with a warm bread poultice, and an aperient powder given to the infant.

Aperient Powders.

To effect this, an active aperient powder should be given every three or four clays, with a daily dose of the subjoined tonic mixture, with as much exercise, by walking, running after a hoop, or other bodily exertion, as the strength of the child and the state of the atmosphere will admit, the patient being, wherever possible, removed to a purer air as soon as convalescence warrants the change. 2559.

When the injury and swelling are not very great, warm applications, with rest, low diet, and a dose of aperient medicine, will be sufficient.

If the burn or scald is not extensive, and there is no prostration of strength, this is very simple, and consists in simply giving a little aperient medicinepills (No. 2), as follows:Mix 5 grains of blue pill and the same quantity of compound extract of colocynth, and make into two pillsthe dose for a full-grown person.

The feverish symptoms will require aperient medicines and the fever mixture.

If the patient is of a strong constitution, she should live on plain diet, take plenty of exercise, and take occasional doses of castor oil, or an aperient mixture, such as that described as "No. 1," in previous numbers.

The best thing to do in these cases is to keep the head well raised, and cool with a lotion such as that recommended above for sprains; to administer an aperient draught, and to abstain from giving anything that stimulates, such as wine, brandy, sal-volatile, &c. &c.

ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF CERTAIN REMEDIES. I. Aperient Medicine - 97 Castor Oil - 99 Manna - 101 Magnesia and Rhubarb - 102 The Lavement - 105 The Aperient Liniment - 107 II.

ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF CERTAIN REMEDIES. I. Aperient Medicine - 97 Castor Oil - 99 Manna - 101 Magnesia and Rhubarb - 102 The Lavement - 105 The Aperient Liniment - 107 II.

When taken alone the best vehicle is hot milk, which greatly quickens its aperient operation.

The simplest form of an aperient enema, is warm water; but barley- water, or thin gruel, or even milk and water, are to be preferred at all times, as they are of a more bland and less irritating nature.

If therefore they become accidentally confined (less than two stools in the four-and-twenty hours), and the infant is suckled, the mother may ascertain whether an aperient taken by herself will render her milk of a sufficiently purgative quality to act upon the bowels of her child.

Children of sound health, who are judiciously fed, and have sufficient exercise, very seldom need aperient medicine.

When cultivated, its young tops are eaten, early in the spring, as substitutes for asparagus, being wholesome and aperient.

It was thermal, saline, pleasant to the taste, and some, who partook of it, attributed to it an aperient quality.

Now, the only medicine I should advise you to take, is a dose of a slight aperient medicine every morning the first thing.