DYSENTERY.
We hear of several severe cases of dysentery in Auckland owing to the bad quality of the water in many places, and the eating of unwholesome fiuit, or bad diet. " The Father of a Family," writing to the Haxvke's Bay Herald, in referring to the alarming mortality amongst children, furnishes a remedy derived from Dr. Russell, which he avers has been successfully tried •" on numerous occasions, particularly where dysentery has been accompanied with excessive vomiting :—: — 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 fiom three to six drops of laudanum, according to the age of the child, and with a common indiarubber syringe administer it as an injection.
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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 431, 20 February 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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126DYSENTERY. Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 431, 20 February 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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