Skin Diseases Among Full-Blood Indians of Oklahoma

was admitted to the wards of the Babies' Hospital where it was kept under treatment for three weeks.While In the hospital wards, the baby was placed on a barley-water mixt- ure, and the tablets were discontinued.When discharged from the hospital, the patient was having loose, green, stools.The mother had a few búlgara tablets in her home which were left over from the July clinic.Of her own accord, she gave these tablets to the baby, and the stools became yellow within two days.The weight now (September 4) was 8 pounds, 9 ounces.In other words, during the infant's stay in the hospital words where its diet had been changed to a barley- water mixture, and where the tablets had been discontinued, the weight had fallen below that which it had been when the implantation treatment was first instituted in the out- patient department.On this first day of the infant's return to the clinic, it was placed on a diet of modified milk with cane Btigar, and one tablet was given every three hours.September G : There were two, soft, yellow stools.Tho weight had increased to 8 pounds, 11 ounces-a gain of 2 ounces in two days.Treatment was continued.September 13: The stools were normal, and the weight had increased to 9 pounds, 3 ounces.October 4: The baby liad made steady improvement and gain in weight had continued.The stools were normal, and the weight was now 10 pounds. CONCLUSIONSThe most impressive facts, which stand out boldly as the result of this method of treatment, are :1.The gain in weight, in spile of the number of stools.2. The rapid change in color of the stools to yellow..">.The rapid subsidence of fever.4. Absence of mucus and blood from tho stools at the end of forty-eight hours.5. The fact that the hygienic surroundings of the patients and the.degree of intelligence of the mothers had no influence on the results.(i.A starvation diet, accompanied by purgation, is productive of loss of weight and strength, and serves to prolong the course of (be disease; and further, such a procedure can no longer be advanced as a rational method of treating infantile diarrhea.7. The digestive powers in infantile intestinal con- ditions, even when associated with fever, are not so impaired as to prevent the digestion and assimilation oí a milk diet.This fact is corroborated in typhoid