llowing them to
be awakened, and in permitting them to play in the open air to their
hearts' content.

_Teething._--Teething is a subject which has at all times interested both
doctor and layman, and in its supposed relation to all kinds of
disorders of infancy has undoubtedly exercised an influence over the
popular imagination out of all proportion to its real importance. Too
often it has happened that this perfectly normal, and usually by no means
serious, process, has been held responsible for grave diseases in
children--diseases which in reality were the consequence of neglect
and mismanagement in the far more serious matters of food, sleep,
out-of-door exercises, and general hygiene. It cannot, however, be
denied--particularly in respect to nervous children--that teething
appears occasionally to induce unpleasant disturbances, such as
fretfulness, broken sleep, digestive disorders, and occasionally fever;
as a rule such symptoms persist only for a few days, if the infant be
properly looked after. The treatment should consist in lancing the gums
should they become much swollen, and the withholding of the usual amount
of food, particularly where intestinal disturbances occur. The ages at
which the teeth usually come are as follows:

2 Middle Lower Teeth 5 to 9 months.
4 Upper Front Teeth 8 to 12 months.
Remaining Lower Front Teeth 12 to 18 months.
4 Front Jaw Teeth 12 to 18 months.
Stomach Teeth (Canine) 18 to 24 months.
Eye Teeth (Canine) 18 to 24 months.
4 Back Jaw Teeth 24 to 30 months.

_Bowel Diseases._--Digestive disturbances, accompanied by diarrhoea, are
the bane of infancy, and are responsible for a very large part of the
frightful mortality among babies. The subject, therefore, is one of
tremendous importance, but is so complicated that the limits of this
little volume will only permit its being touched upon.

As already mentioned, indigestion accompanied by looseness of the bowels
may be and often is the result of milk being used from diseased cows, or
it may be the consequence of such carelessness in handling it that
disease-producing bacteria are later allowed to contaminate it. It should
also never be forgotten that where children are eating artificially
prepared food improper mixing of the different components may result in
serious disturbances, and we should, therefore, exerc