THE YELLOW GUM.

The yellow gum is known by a yellow tinge of the skin, with

languor and a tendency to sleep. It is to be relieved by giving a

tea-spoonful or more of castor oil, to clear the intestines. When

the disease does not give way to this treatment, three drops of

antimonial wine are to be given in a tea-spoonful of water, so as to

prove emetic. In about eight or ten hours, this is to be followed by

½ a grain of calomel, or four grains of rhubarb.