rfectly healthy child of three or four years old.

In these circumstances, the diminution of stimulants, such as the stout
of which young women are sometimes mistakenly urged to take a quantity
to which they were previously quite unaccustomed, is often followed by
an increase of the quantity as well as an improvement in the quality of
the milk. It is true that a nursing mother may often find her strength
maintained, and her supply of milk increased, by taking a glass of stout
at lunch and another at dinner, instead of, but not in addition to, any
other stimulant; but mere stimulants will no more enable a woman to
suckle her infant better than she otherwise would do, than they would
fit a man to undergo great fatigue for days together, or to go through a
walking tour in Switzerland. A tumbler of one-third milk and two-thirds
good grit gruel taken three times a day will have greater influence in
increasing the quantity of milk than any conceivable amount of
stimulant.

There is an entirely opposite condition in which the infant does not
thrive at the breast, and this for the most part is met with when the
mother has already given birth to and suckled several children. In these
instances the secretion is sometimes, though not always, abundant, but
the infant does not thrive upon it. The babe does not get on, is always
hungry after leaving the breast, and cries as though it wanted more; in
addition to which it is often purged, either while sucking or within a
few minutes afterwards, though the motions, except in being more
frequent and more watery than in health, do not by any means constantly
show any other change. The mother's history explains the rest. She is
constantly languid, suffers from back-ache, feels exhausted each time
after the babe has sucked, probably has neuralgia in her face, or
abiding headache. In many instances, too, her monthly periods return,
though as a rule they do not appear in healthy women while suckling. All
these symptoms show that her system is not equal to the duty she has
undertaken, and that therefore, for her sake as well as for that of the
infant, she must give up the attempt.

One more case there is in which suckling has to be given up, at any rate
in part, and that is when the milk is good in kind, but insufficient in
quantity for the child as it grows older. This insufficiency of quantity
shows itself at different periods after the infant's birth--at two
months, three, or four. The ch