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normal infants' milk : " Dyspetic infants I give a day 

 of fasting, that is, they are put on Russian tea — ad 

 libitum — and commence the treatment with calomel 

 or an irrigation. I have never ventured to pass from 

 the dyspepsia-producing food to the normal milk 

 without this pause of twenty-four or thirty-six hours 

 and without cleansing the digestive tract. In chronic 

 dyspepsias I commence with an irrigation and follow 

 up. partly with acid, muriat. dilut. 0.5—1.0 : 200 one 

 teaspoonful every two hours, or magist. bismuthi 1.0 

 -2.0 : 100, or tinct. rhei 1.0 : 100.O. Where there is 

 inclination to vomit I give the milk cold. Scrupul- 

 ous cleanliness of feeding bottle ; feeding nipple to be 

 put on milk bottle direct. Punctuality in giving the 

 meals and in the pauses that have been fixed upon. 

 For the normal milk I have found as the best inter- 

 vals — cases of premature birth excepted : 



For the first week 2 J to ?> hours 



First to second month , 3 hours 



Third to fifth month . Si hours 



Sixth to twelfth month . . 4 hours 



"During the night one or two feedings. From the 

 tenth month onward other food in connection with 

 the milk. If infants find the intervals too long, I 

 give boiled, and subsequently cooled, spring water 

 with a spoon. The strict observance of the quanti- 

 ties of milk given has proved to be less urgent than 

 the strict observance of the intervals. On the whole, 

 I have found the quantities given in the following 



