ases, and fruits are particularly pernicious.
Plain animal food is found to be the most suitable to their state. The
utmost care should be taken under all circumstances to procure genuine
unadulterated bread for children, as the great support of life. If the
perverted habits of the present generation give them an indifference as
to what bread they eat, or a vitiated taste for adulterated bread, they
still owe it to their children as a sacred duty, not to undermine their
constitution by this injurious composition. The poor, and many also of
the middling ranks of society are unhappily compelled to this species of
infanticide, as it may almost be called, by being driven into large
towns to gain a subsistence, and thus, from the difficulty of doing
otherwise, being obliged to take their bread of bakers, instead of
making wholesome bread at home, as in former times, in more favourable
situations. While these are to be pitied, what shall be said of those
whose fortunes place them above this painful necessity. Let them at at
least rear their children on wholesome food, and with unsophisticated
habits, as the most unequivocal testimony of parental affection
performing its duty towards its offspring. It is proper also to observe,
that children ought not to be hurried in their eating, as it is of great
importance that they should acquire a habit of chewing their food well.
They will derive from it the various advantages of being less likely to
eat their food hot, of thus preparing what they eat properly for the
stomach, instead of imposing upon it what is the real office of the
teeth; and also that of checking them from eating too much. When food is
not properly masticated, the stomach is longer before it feels
satisfied; which is perhaps the most frequent, and certainly the most
excusable cause of eating more than is fairly sufficient. Thoughtless
people will often, for their own amusement, give children morsels of
high dishes, and sips of spirituous or fermented liquors, to see whether
they will relish them, or make faces at them. But trifling as this may
seem, it would be better that it were never practised, for the sake of
preserving the natural purity of their tastes as long as possible.

TREATMENT OF THE SICK. Though an unskilful dabbling in cases of illness,
which require the attention of the most medical practitioners, is both
dangerous and presumptuous; yet it is quite necessary that those who
have the care of a family