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a day, this article being substituted for iqo therms milk. 

 As it grows older, these foods may be increased, and 

 some other articles, as perfectly ripe fruit, with now 

 and then a portion of a baked potato, simple soups, etc., 

 may be given. Graham bread should be invariably 

 used in preference to fine-flour bread. If necessary, 

 the coarsest of the bran may be sifted out. By the 

 adoption of this plan, at the end of twelve months 

 nursing may be discontinued altogether. 



From this time, the diet of the child should still 

 consist chiefly of graham bread and milk, baked pota- 

 toes, ripe fruit, and equally simple articles of food. 

 Meat, coarse vegetables, butter, tea and coffee, mus- 

 tard, pepper and other condiments, pastry, preserves 

 and sweets of all kinds, rich puddings and sauces, des- 

 sert, and all articles difficult of digestion, should never 

 be given to young children; indeed, the world would be 

 vastly better off if these articles were never taken either 

 by older children or adults. When the child is costive, 

 oatmeal porridge as a principal article of diet is an 

 excellent means of regulating the bowels. In making 

 oatmeal porridge the milk should not be boiled, but 

 sterilized and added after the porridge is done. 



3. As a general rule, children should not be weaned 

 in hot weather, as slight changes in diet are often suf- 

 ficient to produce serious disturbances at this season 

 of the year. 



GENERAL CARE OF INFANTS 



The Bowels and Bladder.— The first movement of 

 the bowels of a newly born child is of a green color. 

 After this, the discharges should be uniformly of a 

 bright yellow color. If the bowels have a slight tend- 



