Apply to the ear a small flannel bag, filled with hot salt--as hot as can be comfortably borne, or foment the ear with a flannel wrung out of hot camomile and poppy head decoction. A roasted onion, inclosed in muslin applied to the ear, is an old-fashioned and favourite remedy, and may, if the bag of hot salt, or if the hot fomentation do not relieve, be tried. Put into the ear, but not very far, a small piece of cotton wool, moistened with warm olive oil. Taking care that the wool is always removed before a fresh piece be substituted, as if it be allowed to remain in any length of time, it may produce a discharge from the ear. Avoid all _cold_ applications. If the ear-ache be severe, keep the little fellow at home, in a room of equal temperature, but well-ventilated, and give him, for a day or two, no meat. If a discharge from the ear should either accompany or follow the ear-ache, _more especially if the discharge be offensive_, instantly call in a medical man, or deafness for life may be the result. A knitted or crotcheted hat, with woollen rosettes over the ears, is, in the winter time, an excellent hat for a child subject to ear-ache. The hat may be procured at any baby-linen warehouse. 246. _What are the causes and the treatment of discharges from the Ear_? Cold, measles, scarlet fever, healing up of "breakings out" behind the ear; pellets of cotton wool, which had been put in the ear, and had been forgotten to be removed, are the usual causes of discharges from the ear. It generally commences with ear-ache. The _treatment_ consists in keeping the parts clean, by syringing the ear every morning with warm water, by attention to food--keeping the child principally upon a milk and a farmaceous diet, and by change of air--more especially to the coast. If change of air be not practicable, great attention should be paid to ventilation. As I have before advised, in all cases of discharge from the ear call in a medical man, as a little judicious medicine is advisable--indeed, essential; and it may be necessary to syringe the ear with lotions, instead of with warm water; and, of course, it is only a doctor who has actually seen the patient who can decide these matters, and what is best to be done in each case. 247. _What is the treatment of a "stye" on the eye-lid_? Bathe the eye frequently with warm milk and water, and apply, every night at bedtime, a warm white-bread poultice. No medicine is required; but, if the child be gross, keep him for a few days from meat, and let him live on bread and milk and farinaceous puddings. 248. _If a child have large bowels, what would you recommend as likely to reduce their size_?