should be diverted by outdoor exercise on
foot, and additionally in a carriage if necessary. When the
mother's milk, though apparently not deficient in quantity,
proves unsatisfying to the child, great attention should be paid
to varying the diet of the mother, while such staple foods
should be taken as are most easily and thoroughly assimilated
into milk. The unsatisfying quality of the milk will generally
be remedied by taking a more varied diet, together with three or
four half pints of milk in the course of the day, accompanied
with farinaceous matter, as in the shape of well-made milk
gruel; and in case these measures fail, the only alternative is
to supplement the mother's milk by obtaining a wet-nurse to
suckle the child three or four times a day alternately with the
mother, or by feeding the child with proper artificial food. The
same measures may be resorted to where the milk, though
satisfying in character, is deficient in quantity; and in
preparing artificial food for the child it must always be
remembered that the food requires to be adapted to the stage of
development which is manifested by a young infant's digestive
organs. The infant's digestive apparatus is, in fact, designed
to digest milk, and to digest nothing else, but when the teeth
are cut farinaceous matter of a more or less solid character
should be gradually mixed with the milk. Almost all the
illnesses of infants under twelve months of age are caused by
some gross impropriety of diet, or otherwise, on the part of the
mother, for which the child suffers through the medium of the
milk, or they are caused by feeding the child with improper
artificial food. Thick sop, and many other articles often given
as food are as indigestible to an infant of three months old as
beefsteaks would be to a horse; and, until the child has cut its
teeth, it should have nothing but food resembling the mother's
milk as closely as possible.

"The proper way to feed an infant of three months old, whose
mother is only able to partially support it, is as follows: When
the child wakes in the morning it should not go to the mother,
but should be taken away by the nurse, and immediately fed from
the bottle, sucking its milk through a suitable teat. After the
mother has breakfasted the child may go to the breast, and
during