ise the utmost care
always in seeing to it that the food is prepared strictly according to
the table which has already been given--not forgetting that in a certain
number of instances we can go by no rule, and will have to experiment
until we ascertain the proper proportion of the ingredients.

After a diarrhoea begins we should at once reduce the quantity of fat in
the milk that is being given to the infant, and if the trouble be at all
severe it is best to take it off of all food for twenty-four hours, and
substitute boiled water or barley-water. As soon as the trouble is
checked we may then begin to feed cautiously with largely diluted milk,
and, gradually increasing its strength, in the course of a few days
return to the food that was being given before the disturbance occurred.
A dose of calomel or castor oil in the beginning of diarrhoeal troubles
often has a very salutary effect; the parent should not hesitate to
administer this if a doctor is not at hand.

In warm climates during the time of teething children very commonly
develop chronic diarrhoeal conditions which often end fatally; wherever
possible the parent should under such circumstances at once remove the
little sufferer to a colder climate where recovery is generally rapid and
complete. Even the most careful nursing under the most competent
physician is often fruitless in combating disorders of this character as
long as the infant remains in a warm climate.

_Colic._--Colic is always due to indigestion, and is the result of the
food undergoing fermentative changes, with the production of gases. This
goes on even under normal conditions to a certain extent, but when it is
excessive the intestines become greatly distended, and pain of a severe
or even agonizing character is produced.

In the treatment of this condition warm applications should be made to
the abdomen, and as quickly as possible an enema (injection), consisting
of a few ounces of warm solution of salt water should be given; the salt
should be in the proportion of a level teaspoonful to the quart of water.
Parents will find the little ear syringe, which may be purchased at any
drug store, a most satisfactory instrument for giving enemas to infants,
as they do not hold too much, and being soft, are incapable of tearing
the delicate tissues of the child. It is of the utmost importance to
remember that the salt solution should be tepid, yet not sufficiently hot
to scald the infant. As the wa