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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 625 of 653gastromalacia, in the case of infants who are fed on cold nourishment in the night, when mothers or nurses are too indolent to firwarm it before giving it to the little ones. For this reason theGoitre, Bronchocele. -'^^ 743choice of food as well as its preparatioiv^nd t^^ime of giving itto the children, are of the utmost importStnce.\ -^ ,For children who have been weaned, t^most suitable kinds ofnourishment are barley-coffee, carefully-strjcTned codo%sheIls boin milk, skimmed milk sweetened with a^Uttfe stjg^r, beefchicken-broth without salt and at first mixedrjwiWi ^ittle milkand sweetened with a small quantity of sugar ; tffter l^j, wi^flesalt may be added and some wheat bread-crust ^nay be -^ated inand boiled with the brofh. All this kind of notfrishmerif^^has tobe given warm and in small quantities.Children should be accustomed at an early age to a certainregularity in their meals; there should be an interval of two orthree hours between one meal and the next in order to preventoverfeeding and give the food a chance to be properly assimilatedFresh well-water, not too cold, is the best drink for children. Iintestinal catarrh supervenes, a slimy decoction, such as ricewater, arrow-root or slippery elm may be substituted in the placeof water.By observing these rules, gastromalacia can be prevented, and avigorous and healthful development of the infantile organism canbe secured.19. €k>ltTe, Broncliocele.Derbyshire Neck,Goitre is a well-known enlargement of the thyroid body in frontof the neck. Sometimes the enlargement involves only one lobe ofthe gland, but most commonly both lobes are hypertrophied.This disease is endemic in many parts of the United States,especially in districts where limewater is habitually used for coing and drinking purposes. It is remarkably prevalent in Derbyshire, England, and in some of the deep, damp valleys of Switzerland. The river Saskatchawan in British North-America isnotorious for its goitre-producing qualities.The structure of goitre varies ; it may consist of a simple engorment of the blood-vessels; or the capsules of the parenchyma ofthe gland may be distended by a gelatinous fluid. We have seenthyroid glands enormously enlarged and of an osseous hardness.Sometimes the enlargement chiefly takes place on the inside, impeing respiration and even threatening suftbcation. If a sore throaoften seems to defy all treatment it is because the soreness depeupon this internal enlargement of the thyroid body, which may bescarcely visible on the outside. "We have known cases of goitrehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt