ed fork
into a fine, smooth, and even pulp, and which, when poured into a basin
and become cold, will cut out like a custard. If two large biscuits have
been so treated, and the child is six or seven months old, beat up two
eggs, sufficient sugar to properly sweeten it, and about a pint of skim
milk. Pour this on the beaten biscuit in the saucepan, stirring
constantly; boil for about five minutes, pour into a basin, and use,
when cold, in the same manner as the other.

2506. This makes an admirable food, at once nutritious and
strengthening. When tops-and-bottoms or rusks are used, the quantity of
the egg may be reduced, or altogether omitted.

2507. Semolina, or manna croup, being in little hard grains, like a fine
millet-seed, must be boiled for some time, and the milk, sugar, and egg
added to it on the fire, and boiled for a few minutes longer, and, when
cold, used as the other preparations.

2508. Many persons entertain a belief that cow's milk is hurtful to
infants, and, consequently, refrain from giving it; but this is a very
great mistake, for both sugar and milk should form a large portion of
every meal an infant takes.

TEETHING AND CONVULSIONS.

Fits, &c., the consequence of Dentition, and how to be treated.--The
number and order of the Teeth, and manner in which they are cut.--First
and Second Set.

2509. About three months after birth, the infant's troubles may be said
to begin; teeth commence forming in the gums, causing pain and
irritation in the mouth, and which, but for the saliva it causes to flow
so abundantly, would be attended with very serious consequences. At the
same time the mother frequently relaxes in the punctuality of the
regimen imposed on her, and, taking some unusual or different food,
excites diarrhoea or irritation in her child's stomach, which not
unfrequently results in a rash on the skin, or slight febrile symptoms,
which, if not subdued in their outset, superinduce some more serious
form of infantine disease. But, as a general rule, the teeth are the
primary cause of much of the child's sufferings, in consequence of the
state of nervous and functional irritation into which the system is
thrown by their formation and progress out of the jaw and through the
gums. We propose beginning this branch of our subject with that most
fertile source of an infant's suffering--

Teething.

2510. That this subject may he better understood by the nurse and
mother, and the reason of the