oetry and romance, her biographer assigns as the cause of
the death of Petrarch's Laura, that she died worn out _crebris
partubus_, by too many babies.

In all of these cases the rules which I have already given with
reference to hand-feeding have to be borne in mind: the preference for
asses' milk at first, the careful regulation of the amount of curd in
the cows' milk afterwards, increased or diminished by the greater or
less proportion of whey mixed with it. Sometimes, however much the
quantity of curd or casein may be reduced, the child is yet unable to
digest it, for it is firm and not easily acted on by the juices of the
stomach. It is then best to omit it altogether, and to supply the
necessary albumen by white of egg. A very good food in these
circumstances is made of--

White of one raw egg,
Quarter of an ounce of sugar of milk,
Three teaspoonfuls of cream,
Half a pint of whey.

In the course of a few weeks, or when the child seems to need stronger
nourishment, one part of veal-tea, made with a pound of veal to a pint
of water, may be added to one part of whey, with the white of egg and
sugar of milk as before, and one part of white decoction, as it was
called some two centuries ago in England. It is composed of--

Half an ounce of hartshorn shavings,
Inside of one French roll,
Three pints of water--boiled to two, strained and sweetened.

This forms an extremely useful way of introducing farinaceous food into
the infant's diet, and preparing the way for a larger amount of it which
by degrees becomes necessary. Of these, one of the most generally useful
is Liebig's or Savory and Moore's food for infants, which has the
advantage of not constipating as so many other farinaceous foods do.
Chapman's Entire Wheat Flour is an extremely good food; and wheat, as
you will remember, excels other farinaceous substances in its nutritive
properties, but it is not so easy of digestion as Liebig. There is,
however, scarcely any kind of farinaceous food, among which Nestle's
must not be forgotten, which may not answer for an infant; provided
always that at first it is not given oftener than twice a day, that it
is not made too thick, nor given in larger proportion than one-third of
the farinaceous food to two-thirds of the whey, milk, or whatever it is
mixed with; and besides, whatever the food may be, it should be prepared
each time afresh.

This is not the place for going into all details on the subject of
feeding i