Little Children's Dresses

A DiSTiNGuisiiJCD physician, who died many years since in the f-ity of Paris, made this statement: - "I beliere that the tweuty-six years I havo practised tny profession in this city, twenty thousand childron have beea oarried to the cemeteries, a sacrifica to the absurd custom of expoi-ing them, to the weather with their arrns naked." I hawe ofton tho ight il a mother vvere anxioua to show the soft, whit skin of her#baby, and would cut a round hole in the little thing'a dress, j list over the heart, and then carry it abo ut for observation by the compuny, it would do very littlé hann. But to exposé the baby's arms, members so fi.r removed from the heart, and with such feeble circulation at best, a a most pernicious practice. Put the bulb of a thermometer in a baby's rnouth; the mercury rises to 99 degrees Nr.w carry the same bulb to its little hand; if the arms'be bare, and the evening cool, the mercury will sink 40 degrees. Of course all the blod which flows through these arnis and hands must fall from 20 to 40 degreea below the tompemture of the heart. Need I say tliat when these cold currents of blood flow back into the cheBt, the child's general vitality must ba more or less compromiseti? And noed I add that we ought not to be surpriaed at the frequently recurring affeetions of the lungs, throat, and stomach. I have have seen more than ooe child with habitual cough and hsarseness, or choking with mucus, entirely and permanently relieved by eimply keeping its anns and hands warm. Every observing and progrossive physician has daily opportunities to witóeee the same simple cure. -