Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1859 — Rabies. [ARTICLE]

Rabies.

The Electric Medical Journal remarks that young babies often cry from actual thirst. Their natural supply is intended as food and ot as drink, and makes them thirsty without really quenching tl.e thirst as a ccol liquid would. They cry for cold water. Many a mother is anxious to know what ails the little sufferer that it should cry so loudly, and, imagin it to be suffering frorrspain, administers some unnecessary opiate or pain-killer, when all the child needs is a few teaspoonfuls of good, pure, cold water. As the experiment is a very simple, and easy one, let all mothers try it first before recourse to medicine. In warm weather, particularly, children may be suffering from thirst instead of pain, afid a small quantity 7 of cold Water may give them immediate relief.