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of soda, which neutralizes the acidity of the saliva. 

 It is, above all, essential that the feeding-bottle, all 

 the utensils employed for the infant, and the infant 

 itself, should be kept perfectly clean; and, unfortu- 

 nately, this condition is too rarely fulfilled, especially 



Fig. 34. Oidium albicans, or Saccharomj/ces mycolerma: d, much-branched myce- 

 lium ; g t chaplet or torula of spores, giving birth at/, k to the mycelium. 



among the working classes in towns, and districts in 

 which children are usually put out to nurse. The 

 feeding-bottle in use in such cases generally smells 

 so sour as to be offensive to every one who is not 



