"Paregoric 2 ounces Brandy 1 ounce Jamaica Ginger 1 ounce Have used this and found it excellent." Dose: 1/2 dram every 3 hours. 12. Summer Complaint, Fern Root Good to Relieve.--"A decoction is made with two ounces of the sweet fern root boiled in one and one-half pints water to one pint. Dose.--A tablespoonful several times a day as the case requires. Most useful in diarrhea," This may be purchased at any drug store and will be found a very good treatment for diarrhea. 13. Summer Complaint, Milk and Pepper a Common Remedy for.--"Sweet milk and black pepper once or twice a day. Dose.--Three or four swallows. Mother used to use this for us children." The milk should be warmed, for in this way it relieves the diarrhea while the pepper is stimulating. PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT for Diarrhea.--1. Rest in bed is the best. Abstain from food, especially at first, and then only give a little milk and boiled water or milk and lime water every two hours for two days. Cracked ice is good for the thirst. 2. A dose of one-half to an ounce of castor oil to an adult is of great benefit, as it removes all the irritating matter from the bowels. This often cures a light diarrhea. Follow by a blackberry wine or blackberry cordial if it is more severe. 3. For children.--An infusion of path weed is an excellent remedy for this trouble in children; after castor oil in one to two teaspoonful doses has been given. If castor oil is too bad to take, you can use what is called "spiced syrup of rhubarb," one to two teaspoonfuls to a child one to two years old, and then follow with blackberry wine. 4. For infants.--An infusion of chamomile is good for the green diarrhea of teething babies. [110 MOTHERS' REMEDIES] 5. Another for infants.--For infantile diarrhea the root of geranium maculation or cranesbill, boiled in milk in the proportion of one or two roots to the pint, will be found of great service and is tasteless. 6. Ginger tea is frequently of good service, especially when the stomach needs "toning." 7. Infants of six months.--Chalk and bismuth mixture by Dr. Douglass, of Detroit. "Subnitrate of Bismuth 2 drams Paregoric 2 fluid drams Chalk mixture 2 fluid drams Mix and shake bottle. Give one-half to one teaspoonful for loose bowels in a child six months old, every two to four hours as needed." DIET IN DIARRHEA.--From the Head Nurse of a Large Hospital. May Take-- Soups.--Milk soup well boiled, clam juice, beef tea. Meats.--Scraped fresh beef or mutton well broiled, sweetbread, beef juice from freshly broiled steak (all sparingly). Eggs.--Lightly boiled or poached on dry toast. Farinaceous.--Rice, sago, macaroni, tapioca, arrowroot, dry toast, milk toast, toasted crackers. Desserts.--Milk puddings, plain, with sago, rice, tapioca or arrowroot (no sugar). Drinks.--Tea, toast water, boiled peptonized milk, Panopepton. Must Not Take--