WHAT To Do
From The home nurse and nursery (1888).
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From The home nurse and nursery (1888), printed page 319, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/54730860R.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
Method
- In a case of convulsions which has_ been caused by feeding an infant either with too much or with artificial food :—Give him, every ten minutes, a half-teaspoonful of ipecacuanha wine, until free vomiting be excited, then put him into a warm bath;
- and when he comes out of it administer to him a teaspoonful of castor oil, and repeat it every few hours, until the bowels be well opened.