Lamp's.—This is, at the most, a temporary complaint, which generally submits to a slight scarifying of the bars of the mouth with a sharp knife or lancet. The gums are not very sensitive to such an operation, which is far preferable to the popular but wholly barbarous and hurtful practice of burning with a hot iron. Sometimes repeated scarification is necessary, and a rather more than superficial one. An ounce of powdered borax in three ounces of molasses may be smeared over the bars of the mouth, and a dose or two of salts (eight ounces each) may be administered to subdue the irritation which generally arises from disturbance caused by teething. Soft feed should be given while the mouth is swollen. ffollauvu/ .s' Pills. —Hood Spirits.—Everyone has frequently experienced sin Men personal changes from gaiety to glo un. The wind and weather oft receive the blame when a faultv digestion is tlie sole cause of the depression. Hollo wav’s Pi Is can he hones ly re om iiended for regulating a disordered stomach and thereby improving digestion. Thev entirely remove the sense of fulness and oppression a f ter e'ting. They clear the furre I tongue and act as a wholesome stimulant to the liver, and ns a gentle aperient to the bowels. They healthfully rouse both body and mind. Holloway's Pills are the best known antidotes for want of appetite, nausea, flatulency, heartburn, languor, depression, and that piinfnl apathy which is so characteristic of chronic derangement of the digestion.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 196, 12 August 1873, Page 5
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