SCIENCE TEACHING. 301 



THE FEEDING OF INFANTS. 



Dr. W. Faussett, in an interesting article on this subject in the London 

 Medical Press and Circular, arrives at the following conclusions : 



First — That aliment should alwaj^s be presented to the infant stomach in 

 a perfectly fluid form. 



Second — That as bread and farinaceous substances generally have been 

 proved by experience, and recently by numerous post-mortem examina- 

 tions, to be often indigestible, and to have led directly to infant mortality 

 such substances had better be excluded from infant feeding. 



Third — That cow's or goat's milk, when pure and modified as much as 

 possible to resemble human milk, will often be found sufficient, without any 

 other help, to nourish the new-born infant. 



Fourth — That as cocoa contains all the elements indispensable for the 

 growth and development of the body, and can always be presented in a fluid 

 form, it is, next to milk, preferable to all other natural substances as an 

 article for infant aliment. 



There is one other point, which, though only indirectly connected with 

 infant feeding, is one of paramount importance, as regards the present and 

 future health of the individual, namely, the necessity of guarding against the 

 hateful practice of covering the child's face as it sleeps. 



The mistaken kindness and over-zealous attention of nurses in excluding 

 the pure air of heaven from entering the lungs, in order to guard against 

 the efl'ects of cold, will often be exhibited in the soft, pale flabby condition 

 of the infant's body, while a cachectic condition of the blood will be insidi- 

 ously generated, which must prevent the infant thriving for the present, and 

 possibly may lay the foundation of tubercular and other diseases in after- 

 life. 



POPULAR EDUCATION, 



SCIENCE TEACHING. 

 BY PROF. E. C. CROSBY. 



[Read at State Teachers' Association, June 2S, 1877, Sedalia, Mo.J 



I propose to state the correct method of teaching science, some of the 

 errors of our common methods, and some thoughts upon the intellectual and 

 moral results of such teaching. An English philosopher has defined the 

 word "science" as a correct interpretation of natural objects and their phe- 

 nomena ; a comprehension of law wherever law prevails. It will be as- 

 sumed that the senses are the pioneers of all knowledge, and that whatever 

 is learned as absolutely new must be comprehended by the plan of Froebel. 



