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Show rang unuang, unina. Oct. ptn, I^OB. ; Bear Dr.j3mma, probably this is the last note that could reach you fro.?* here be* for© you start up the canal, since the mail yoes only every other day and the mail to Tientsin is alow anyway. Yoa see I am trying to make up for past I neglect, ar .. do want yoa to have some knowledog:.e of Maraaret»s condition before yoa yet here, for I am trusting that your experiance with babies ana your better consulting library not to mention the consultant you have with you rill enable yoa to arrive here with an approved method of treatment - jsay hygienic, dietetic and medical. And yet how can I tell you ft m the few minutes 1 have e-mupa so that you can form any judgment at all? She has ; am pa .: her second birthday and is I should judge about the height of' the average child of her age. She weighs a little leas than twenty ciay oeyond aiiowd po;; a.She ha not an emaciatea took though very thin. She i.s pale but not the Least yellow, her ahhooeo is prominent (even when she is dressed it is notieable) but the distention is due entirely to gas, (Excuse me for not using medical terras but it is so long -since 1 have had a chance to use them that I can't think of them fast enough.) Physical examination shows only $p her thinness and this distention neither spleen nor liver oipa i . ae ^asse plenty of urine - noxioai color ana oSor, ao albumen. Of nor hoaei movements I have spoken. She is inclined to be constipated and. the movements are color. She was weaned when about a year old. and has had a diet always that allowed children of her age, and since I have known her has been to say what she would or would Tat eat. After we got lie re I put her onto the diet of a child between eighteen and twentyfour months. Some days she would refuse one thing and some another and four days ayo would take nothing but milk.Her stool the next morning was dry and perfectly white, nothing but the milk curd. The next day she took milk dilated A third. She also had. a _ little beef seup ana a piece of hard toast . The stool again was the sane white hut was soft*. Today the poor child is feastiay on egg albumen (she does like it) and a little of the dryest toast. Sin has also had calomel a/ six tenths in tenth grain doses. Sot the first aha has had but the other dose was saaiier and her stool that -lay showed not a sign of bile. There is more to say but it is time for the mail to yo. You will be glad to know that her mother's last examination shewed everythi ig exactly as it s¥p should be. Position L.O.A. Placdnta high and posterior, wateraat heartxg and child's 1ST. I know you are praying that I /say have the wisdom I need ior each day as it comes. Hope the dear babies and their parents too are well. With much love , |