_What NOT to do_--Do not give emetic tartar, do not apply leeches, do not keep the room very warm, do not give stimulants, do not omit to have always in the house either a 4 oz. bottle, or three or four 1 oz. bottles, of Ipecacuanha Wine. 202. _I have heard Child crowing mentioned as a formidable disease, would you describe the symptoms_? Child-crowing, or spasm of the glottis, or _spurious croup_, as it is sometimes called, is occasionally mistaken for _genuine croup_. It is a more frequent disorder than the latter, and requires a different plan of treatment Child crowing is a disease that invariably occurs only during dentition, and is _most perilous_, indeed, painful dentition is _the_ cause--_the_ only cause--of child crowing. But, if a child labouring under it can fortunately escape suffocation until he have cut the whole of his first set of teeth--twenty--he is then safe. Child-crowing comes on in paroxysms. The breathing during the intervals is quite natural--indeed, the child appears perfectly well, hence, the dangerous nature of the disease is either overlooked, or is lightly thought of, until perhaps a paroxysm worse than common takes place, and the little patient dies of suffocation, overwhelming the mother with terror, with confusion, and dismay. The _symptoms_ in a paroxysm of child-crowing are as follows--The child suddenly loses and fights for his breath, and in doing so, makes a noise very much like that of crowing, hence the name child-crowing. The face during the paroxysm becomes bluish or livid. In a favourable case, after either a few seconds, or even, in some instances, a minute, and a frightful straggle to breathe, he regains his breath, and is, until another paroxysm occurs, perfectly well. In an unfavourable case, the upper part (chink) of the windpipe--the glottis--remains for a minute or two closed, and the child, not being able to breathe, drops a corpse in his nurse's arms! Many children, who are said, to have died of fits, hare really died of child-crowing. Child-crowing is very apt to cause convulsions, which complication, of course, adds very much to the danger. Such a complication requires the constant supervision of an experienced and skilful medical man. I have entered thus rather fully into the subject, as nearly every life might be saved, if a mother knew the nature and the treatment of the complaint, and of the _great necessity during the paroxysm of prompt and proper measures_. For, too frequently, before a medical man has had time to arrive, the child has breathed his last, the parent himself being perfectly ignorant of the necessary treatment; hence the vital importance of the subject, and the paramount necessity of imparting such information, in a _popular_ style, in conversations of this kind. 203. _What treatment, then, during a paroxysm of Child-crowing should you advise_?