PREVENTION OF INJURY FROM SWALLOWED ARTICLES.
"If a child has swallowed anything that will not digest," said a noted physician, "particularly if it is sharp, let him eat immediately two or three pieces of dry bread. This is very apt to surround the object swallowed with a sort of coating. In addition let the food for several days be more solid than usual, and under no circumstances give purgative medicine. The chances are that the child will feel no trouble from the carelessness." "This plan was followed successfully the other day," says a correspondent of the Cincinnati Inquirer, "when a little girl swallowed a large-sized carpet tack. Her mother, with great presence of mind, prepared some buckwheat cakes, of which the little girl ate heartily. The buckwheat adhered to the tack and prevented it from cutting as it passed through the intestines. The tack was discharged on the second day, heavily coated with the flour, and the little one has been in no way discommoded or injured by the accident."—Christian Advocate.