Lcsage' recommends that if the onset of the disorder is with high
fever, a foul-smelling but not abundant diarrluea, and a cousi(leral)le
amount of tvmpanites, sutlicieut calomel to act as a ])ronij)t ])urg-.itive
-Imidtl be administered in one dose: for an infant of three m(»nths, one
grain ; ovci' three months and uudei' one year, two grains, and over one
year and uu<ler three, three grains. In cases where the fever is only
m<»derate, where the alxlomen is soft and not distended, and where the
diarrhd'a i- copions, he prefers to use small doses of about oue-lifth grain,
given every one or two hours for six or twelve doses. Should vomiting
persist a careful lavage of the stomach at this ])eriod of the disease will
prove of much value.