_Causes._--Errors in diet, cold, use of drugs, especially of purgatives and strong medicines used to check diarrhea. Remember what is said of diarrhea on page 224, and do not be in haste to check the first symptoms. Use liquid food only. It is seldom necessary to give remedies. _Hot fomentations_ alternated with _cold compresses_ carefully adjusted, will prove very efficacious. _Hot enemas_ should also be given. DENTITION under natural and proper conditions should not be accompanied by constitutional disturbances. Some law must have been violated to have caused derangements with teething. The symptoms of the disorders of dentition are hot, swollen gums, accompanied by feverishness and restlessness, starting, as if in fright, or interrupted sleep, increased flow of saliva, various eruptions on the head or body, derangements of the digestive organs. Summer complaint is the most frequent of the ailments peculiar to teething, which see page 225. The most prevalent and serious cause for these ailments is to be found in the adoption of a mixed diet at too early an age. A teething infant cannot with impunity be thus fed. This is sufficiently proved by the lack of a full complement of teeth needful for mastication. Disturbed conditions of the mother, as worry, anger, over-heating, and fatigue often result in serious effects on the nursing child. Let the gums be bathed frequently in cold water. Lancing is seldom necessary. Starchy foods and sweets should be avoided. It has been proven that the love for sweets often manifested by children is an unnatural appetite. It is doing injury to the teething infant to cultivate this taste by universally sweetening its food. Supplement the milk diet with graham mush, wheatlet, granula, or bread of the fine flour of the entire wheat. Keep the child much in the open air. See that the head is cool and the feet warm. Bathe daily in cold water, and keep a flannel band or shirt about the abdomen. _Chamomilla, 2d._--An excellent medicine for most cases of disordered dentition, especially in the absence of fever. Also when there is bilious purging, intestinal irritation, cough, nervousness and fretfulness. Six pellets every hour. _Aconitum, 2d._--Feverishness, restlessness, inflamed gums. Ten drops in half a glass of water, teaspoonful every half hour. A cloth wet in this preparation given to a child to hold in its mouth will alleviate heat and pain in the gums, and will be highly appreciated by the little one. _Calcarea Carb., 3d._--Slimy diarrhea in scrofulous patients. Six pellets every three hours. _Arsenicum, 3d._--Thirst, hot hands and feet, great emaciation. Six pellets every hour. _Bell., 3d._--Flushed face, nervous irritability, uneasiness in sleep. Six pellets every hour. _Pod., 2d._--Diarrhea with pain of an intermitting character, prolapsus ani. Six pellets every three hours. _Silicea, 6th._--Perspiration about the head upon falling asleep. Six pellets three times a day.