THOMAS S. SOUTHWORTH, M. D. 255 



optimism should not decree that our daughters shall assume 

 the grave responsibilities of maternity almost without previous 

 instruction. 



In such work as is being done to correct these blunders of the 

 centuries, the physicians must be the. leaders, but the laymen 

 have no less important responsibility. Let us hope that the day 

 is not far distant when fewer breasts which were intended to 

 suckle shall be wantonly dried through ignorance of the value 

 of breast milk or of the means of maintaining it as a part if not 

 the whole of the infant's nourishment. 



