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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 246, 10 February 1875, Page 2

The following letter is clipped from the 11. B. Herald : —Sir, —The alarming mortality amongst children in the present month, through dysentery, has reminded me of a simple remedy prescribed by Dr. Bussell for one of my own children, which has been successfully tried on numerous occasions—particularly where dysentery has been accompanied with excessive vomiting, and I trust, through the medium of your columns, the receipt may bo widely disseminated, and be the means of saving many a mother’s heart from that aching void occasioned by the loss of one of her little ones. Receipt: —Take a small quantity of common starch (white, not blue), and mix as usual, but rather thinner than for ordinary use, and put in from three to six drops of laudanum, according to the age of the child, and with a common indiarubber syringe, administer it as an injection.—l am, Ac., The Father of a Family. Napier, January 29, 1875. To our minds babies resemble wheat in many respects. Neither are good for much till they arrive at maturity. Both are bread in the house, an-1 flower in the family. Bth have to be cradled, and generally well thrashed before they are clone with.