De morbis puerorum, or, a treatise of the diseases of children;: with their causes, signs, prognosticks, and cures, for the benefit of such as do not understand the Latine tongue, and very useful for all such as are house-keepers, and have children. With the contents of the several chapters, as also an alphabetical table of all the diseases mentioned herein. By Robert Pemell practitioner in physick, at Cranebrooke in Kent. May the 29. 1653.

The cure.

In the cure of loosenesse of the belly, we must consider whether the child suck or not, then whether the teeth break forth or not: For if the child suck, then the nurses milk must be looked on whether it be good or bad; If bad then it must be mended, or the Nurse changed. The Nurse must use a binding dyet, and abstain from fruits and raw nourishment, as also from those things that are of hard digestion. If the Infant suck or not, and the flux be of some continuance, means must be used to stay it, and such means as first cleanse and then bind the body, as sirup of Roses so∣lutive, or hony of Roses solutive. Clysters may be used.