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table sufficient, although the requirement changes 

 •with the individual. With weak infants, and such 

 that are reconvalescent from Dyspepsia, I always pre- 

 scribe the I. grade of normal milk in somewhat 

 smaller doses, augmenting them gradually : 



"After dyspepsia I have found the recuperation of 

 weight even more rapid than in breast infants." 



Many believe that two kinds of milk are injurious 

 to an infant. This is erroneous. Normal milk can 

 be given with greatest advantage together with 

 mothers' or nurses' milk ; it should naturally be of 

 faultless quality, and adapted to the digestive forces 

 of the infant. Professor Gasrtner, of Vienna, gives 

 the following experience with the feeding of twin 

 babies who, together, possessed but one nurse, and a 

 very poor one at that. From the fifth week of their 

 lives, onward, they received, each, about a pint of the 

 normal milk daily, their gain in weight may be seen 

 from the following table : 



