Many persons entertain a belief that cow's milk is hurtful to infants, and, consequently, refrain from giving it; but this is a very great mistake, for both sugar and milk should form a large portion of every meal an infant takes.

"Time," according to the old proverb, "is money;" and it may also, in many cases, and with equal truthfulness, be said to be life; for a few moments, in great emergencies, often turn the balance between recovery and death.

These baths are used whenever there is congestion, or accumulation of blood in the internal organs, causing pain, difficulty of breathing, or stupor, and are employed, by their stimulating property, to cause a rush of blood to the surface, and, by unloading the great organs, produce a temporary inflammation in the skin, and so equalize the circulation.

When the inside of the throat is the part stung, there is great danger of violent inflammation taking place.

The great thing is to prevent the poison getting into the blood; and, if possible, to remove the whole of it at once from the body.

The patient's friends will have to use their own judgment to a great extent in these and in many other cases, as to when leeches, fever-mixture, &c., are necessary.

The great thing for people to do in these cases isnothing; contenting themselves with putting the patient to bed, and waiting the arrival of a surgeon. 2624.

In every case, amusing the mind, and avoiding all causes of over-excitement, are of great service in bringing about a permanent cure. 2644.

There is great burning pain, extending from the mouth to the stomach; vomiting of a liquid of a dark coffee-colour, often mixed with shreds of flesh and streaks of blood; the skin inside the mouth is taken off; and the exposed surface is at first white, and after a time becomes brownish.

When the pain over the stomach is very great, the same local treatment is necessary; but if it is only slight, a good mustard poultice will be sufficient without the leeches.

When very strong fumes of smelling-salts have in any way been inhaled, there is great difficulty of breathing, and alarming pain in the mouth and nostrils.

There is a coppery taste experienced in the act of swallowing, with a burning heat, extending from the top of the throat down to the stomach; and also a feeling of great tightness round the throat.

There is also great prostration of strength.

These consist at first in giddiness and stupor, followed by insensibility, the patient, however, being roused to consciousness by a great noise, so as to be able to answer a question, but becoming insensible again almost immediately.

If he has been a great drinker, he may be allowed to take a little beer; but it is better not to do so.

When the swelling and tenderness about the joint are very great, from eight to twelve leeches may be applied.

Ye chief, for whom the whole creation smiles; At once the head, the heart, the tongue of all, Crown the great hymn!

Yet not in thoughtless slumber were they passed; For oft the heavenly fire, that lay concealed Beneath the sleeping embers, mounted fast, And all its native light anew revealed; Oft as he traversed the cerulean field, And marked the clouds that drove before the wind, Ten thousand glorious systems would he build, Ten thousand great ideas filled his mind:

be sure the best of men; Nor thought he more than thought great Origen.

the learned, the wise, The great, the busy, I despise, And pity even the gay. 'These, these are joys alone, I cry, 'Tis here, divine Philosophy, Thou deign'st to fix thy throne!

Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear: They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.

The officer had ordered a great many things of this man, promising to pay on his return to Tangier.

Now a large dark outline loomed before him; he would have to stop, to come about in a moment, orA great wave struck him, half filling his boat, but he did not seem to notice.

And it is only when there is this soul longing to reach the excellence conceived, for itself alone, that great works have been produced.

Pray, when would Sheikh Tâhâr, that eminent Koordish saint, have become convinced that he was a great sinner, if they had not carried about the contribution-boxes in the little New England churches?