om fat, and mixed with an
equal quantity of farinaceous food.

If this artificial diet is used before the sixth month, it must be
given through the sucking-bottle; after this period with a spoon: in
either case it must be previously passed through a sieve.

When the large or grinding teeth have appeared, the same food is still
to be continued, but need not any longer be expressed through the sieve.

Such is the plan of nursing to be followed by the mother until she
wean her infant altogether from the breast. The period when this ought
to take place, as also the manner of accomplishing it, are detailed
in the section on "Weaning."[FN#2]

[FN#2] See page 51.

The diet from weaning to the termination of infancy is pointed out
under "Artificial Feeding."[FN#3]

[FN#3] See page 34.

DEFICIENCY OF MILK.

If this deficiency exist from the earliest weeks after delivery, and
it is not quickly remedied by the means presently to be pointed out, a
wet-nurse must be obtained. It will be of no avail partially to nurse,
and partially to feed the infant at this period and under such
circumstances, for if it is not soon lost, it will only live for a few
months, or a year at most, and be an object of the greatest anxiety and
grief to its parent. This condition arises from the unwholesomeness of
the mother's milk, united with the artificial food; for when the milk
is deficient from the first, and continues so notwithstanding the means
used for its increase, it is invariably unhealthy in its quality.

This deficiency, however, may exist, and even at a very early period
after delivery, and yet be removed. This, however, is not to be
accomplished by the means too frequently resorted to; for it is the
custom with many, two or three weeks after their confinement, if the
supply of nourishment for the infant is scanty, to partake largely of
malt liquor for its increase. Sooner or later this will be found
injurious to the constitution of the mother: but how, then, is this
deficiency to be obviated? Let the nurse keep but in good health, and
this point gained, the milk, both as to quantity and quality, will be
as ample, nutritious, and good, as can be produced by the individual.

I would recommend a plain, generous, and nutritious diet; not one
description of food exclusively, but, as is natural, a wholesome,
mixed, animal, and vegetable diet, with or without wine or malt liquor,
according to former habit; and, oc