be preserved healthy during suckling, 3.
--; deficiency of, 11.
--; drying up of, 54.
--, cow's; for infant's food, 35.
--, ass's; for infant's food, 37.
--, all kinds of, sometimes disagrees with the infant, 39.

Mind, anxiety of; effects upon the parent's milk, 24.

Moles and marks on the skin, 206.

Mothers, their duty in relation to suckling, 3.
--; those who ought never to suckle their children, 20. 24. 26.

Motions of the infant; what the appearance of, and how frequent, in
health, 99. 172.
--; their deranged condition, a sign of disease, 173.

Napkins, the infant's, 74.

Navel, bleeding from, 203.
--, ulceration or imperfect healing of, 202.

Navel-string, bleeding from, 201.

Naevi, or moles, 206.

Nurses, wet, rules for the choice of, 28.
--, diet and management of, 31.

Nursery medicines, 97.

Nursing, maternal, 3.
--; the plan to be adopted for the first six months, 7.
--; the plan to be followed after the sixth month to the time of
weaning, 9.
--; the injurious effects to the mother of undue and protracted
suckling, 15.
--; the injurious effects of undue and protracted suckling to the
infant, 18.

Opiates, 110. 297.
--, in teething, dangerous, 145.

Passion, its effect upon the breast-milk, 33.

Porter, of its use, by the mother during suckling, 1
--, when mischievous, 4.

Poultice, bread-and-water, how made, 116.
--, mustard, how made and applied, 115.

Purgative medicine, 97.

Retention of urine in the infant, 194.

Rhubarb, 103.

Rules for nursing, 3.
--, for the use of the warm bath, 181.

Salt, as a condiment, 61.

Scarlet fever, 239.
--, how distinguished from measles, 245.

Scrofulous constitution, 180.

Sea-bathing, 120.

Seasons (the), their influence in producing particular forms of
disorder, 178.

Shower-bath, 123.

Signs of health in the infant, what, 168.
--, of disease in the infant, what, 169.

Skin of the infant, importance of its perfect cleanliness, 72.
--, friction and sponging of, beneficial, 73.

Sleep, during infancy, 66.
--, childhood, 69.
--, how affected when the child is ill, 171.

Small-pox, 262.

Spirituous liquors, their pernicious effects to children, 63. 296.

Sponging, 125.

Spoon-feeding, 39.

Still-born, 187.

Stomach and bowels, their derangement, a fruitful source of disease,
208.
--, disorders of, in the infant at the breast, 210.
--, disorders of, at the period of weaning, 217.
--, disorders of, in t