the day it should be alternately fed from the bottle, and
nursed by the mother. At six o'clock the baby should invariably
be placed in its crib, by the side of the mother's bed, and fed
just before going to sleep, and the habit of going to bed at six
o'clock should be strictly and invariably enforced. If once the
child be allowed to come down to the family circle after dark,
the habit of going to sleep will be broken, and the child will
continuously cry to come down. In the course of the evening the
mother may nurse the child once, and at ten or eleven o'clock,
when the mother goes to bed, the child should be again fed from
the bottle, and the mother should have a basin of well-made
milk-gruel; and by her bedside should be placed, at the last
moment, as much gruel as she is likely to drink with relish
during the night. Whenever the child is restless it should be
taken out of its crib, gently, by the mother, and nursed, say
two or three times during the night, and put back again into its
crib, the child never being allowed to sleep with the mother.
When the night is fairly over, and the child awakens, it should
be fetched by the nurse, and have its first morning meal from
the bottle. This plan of feeding should be persisted in
continuously until the child has cut its teeth; and it is only
when every means have been taken to ensure the sweetness,
freshness and niceness, not only of the milk and water, but of
the bottle and of the teat, and the child still fails to get on,
that, in rare cases, I advise the admixture of a little
farinaceous matter, in the way of food containing one part milk,
and two parts of properly sweetened barley-water. As the milk
teeth come through, other farinaceous matter may be gradually
blended with the milk, and there is nothing better than to begin
at about eight months with a teaspoonful of baked flour, well
boiled in a pint of milk and water, or in the water, to be
afterwards cooled with milk. Oftentimes a little salt, as well
as sugar, will materially help its digestion. The child will do
well on that food--the quantity being duly increased--until it
has cut almost all its milk teeth, when it may eat bread and
butter, rice, and egg puddings, and occasionally eat a boiled
egg once a day. I believe that it is a great mistake to give red
flesh meat