eak
formula and work up from that standard. This is always a tedious and
anxious experience and may lay the foundation for digestive disturbances
for a long time. Don't be too anxious to increase the quality, or
quantity, of your baby's food. It is much better to go slow and have a
well baby, than to try to force matters and get into all kinds of
trouble. No science calls for more elementary common sense, than the
science of infant therapy.

Digestive disturbances incident to this period are fully explained in
the chapter on Diseases of Children.

FOOD ALLOWABLE DURING THE FIRST YEAR, IN ADDITION TO MILK

About the twelfth month the baby should receive plain milk mixtures
instead of the top-milk heretofore used in making up the food. At first
the milk may be plain milk from an ordinary bottle shaken up. Of this he
may take five ounces, to which may be added three ounces of barley
water. The barley water may be gradually withdrawn, an ounce at a time,
replacing this amount with milk, until the child is taking eight ounces
of milk and two ounces of barley water. Later plain mixed milk will be
suitable for a child about the fourteenth month.

Barley water may be added to the milk at any time after the third month
in place of the plain boiled water in the preceding formulas. It is
advisable to do this if there is any trouble with digestion, or if there
are curds in the stools. Some children take more kindly to barley water
than plain water at a very early age.

BEEF JUICE.--The juice squeezed from broiled steak may be given a child
at about the eighth or ninth month, or, in cases of anemia, earlier than
this. It is given before the milk feeding, diluted with an equal amount
of water. At first a teaspoonful of the extracted juice should be given
with the same quantity of water; increase every four days until at the
end of two or three weeks two tablespoonfuls are given.

WHITE OF EGG.--Place an egg in boiling water and allow the water to cool
with an egg in it. In ten minutes the white of the egg will be
coagulated and ready for use. It may be used in place of the beef juice
if the latter does not agree and may be begun at the sixth month and
given once daily. One-half of the white of the egg should be tried, then
at the end of a week, if it agrees with the child, the whole white of
one egg may be given.

ORANGE JUICE.--This juice has a good effect on the bowels and may be
given even to very young children who are