Certainly not; if you wish to take away his appetite, and to weaken and depress him, give brimstone! Brimstone is not a remedy fit for a child's stomach. The principal use and value of brimstone is as an external application in itch, and as an internal remedy, mixed with other laxatives, in piles--piles being a complaint of adults. In olden times poor unfortunate children were dosed, every spring and fall, with brimstone and treacle to sweeten their blood! Fortunately for the present race, there is not so much of that folly practised, but still there is room for improvement. To dose a _healthy_ child with physic is the grossest absurdity. No, the less physic a delicate child has the better it will be for him, but physic to a healthy child is downright poison! And brimstone of all medicines! It is both weakening and depressing to the system, and by opening the pores of the skin and by relaxing the bowels, is likely to give cold, and thus to make a healthy, a sickly child. Sweeten his blood! It is more likely to weaken his blood, and thus to make his blood impure! Blood is not made pure by drugs, but by Nature's medicine; by exercise, by pure air, by wholesome diet, by sleep in a well-ventilated apartment, by regular and thorough ablution. Brimstone a preventive medicine! Preventive medicine--and brimstone especially in the guise of a preventive medicine--is "a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." 253. _When a child is delicate, and his body, without any assignable cause, is gradually wasting away, and the stomach rejects all food that is taken, what plan can be adopted likely to support his strength, and thus probably be the means of saving his life_? I have seen, in such a case, great benefit to arise from half a tea-cupful of either strong mutton-broth or of strong beef-tea, used as an enema every four hours. [Footnote: An enema apparatus is an important requisite in every nursery; it may be procured of any respectable surgical instrument maker. The India-rubber Enema Bottle is, for a child's use, a great improvement on the old syringe, as it is not so likely to get out of order, and, moreover, is more easily used.] It should be administered slowly, in order that it may remain in the bowel. If the child be sinking, either a dessert-spoonful of brandy, or half a wine-glassful of port wine, ought to be added to each enema.