
generally the food materials employed, and the methods of their preparation, and then refer to the diet employed in certain diseases. The accompanying medicinal treatment will not be discussed.

If the boiled cow's milk and barley-water are unsuited to an infant, as shown by wasting, persistent sickness with curdy vomit, constipation, or diarrhoea,, then limewater is added in the proportion of two tablespoonfuls to each half bottle of milk, or fifteen to thii ty drops of liquor calcis saccharatus, or koumiss may be used, or the milk may be peptonised. The method of pepton-' ising the milk is as follows : To one pint of fresh milk and a quarter of a pint of cold water is added one of Fairchild's peptonising powders. The mixture is then put in a jar, which is set in a basin containing water as hot as the hand can bear, and allowed to stand for twenty minutes, the jar being occasionally shaken. The milk is then removed, and rapidly brought to the boil, so as to stop the peptonising process, after which it is ready for use. In other cases, where only a small quantity of milk is tolerated, raw meat juice is employed with very good results. To make it, a quarter of a pound of the best beef steak is first passed through the mincing machine, and then pounded to a paste.

To this is added a quarter of a pint of cold water, and the whole is allowed to stand for an hour, after which it is strained through muslin.

To the juice thus obtained, salt or sugar may be added according to taste, and one ounce or more may be given every four hours. Infants will take it readily if it is slightly warmed, sweetened, and mixed with milk. 

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