Give a few teaspoonfuls of pure boiled water several times a day.

Summer diarrhea is caused by spoiled milk or other food, bad air, dirt, and too much clothing, too much handling, too little sleep, too little water.

If the baby vomits or has loose bowels, stop all food and give plain boiled water until you have seen your doctor.

Do not drug the baby. If your baby is sick send for a doctor or take it to a hospital or dispensary.

Do not ask your neighbors' advice about your baby, ask your doctor.

THE BOTTLE-FED BABY.

The Bottles.-Use a common round-bottomed bottle; boil or scald it each time before putting the baby's milk in it.

The Nipples.-Use plain black rubber nipples. Boil them once a day. Wash the nipples before and after each feeding. When not in use keep the nipples in a covered glass filled with water in which you have put a pinch of baking soda or borax. Never use a nipple with a tube to it.

The Milk.-Get only the best milk for the baby. Better pay more for milk and save doctor bills, and possibly funeral expenses. It costs less to buy a baby good milk for a year than to bury it.

The best milk is bottled at the dairy and delivered in bottles. Milk sold from the can is apt to be dirty and unfit for use. Milk in summer from an open can in a shop is never fit to give a baby. Milk from a herd is better than milk from one cow.

To Keep Milk.-Take it in as soon as delivered. As soon as possible mix the baby's milk. Place this in clean bottles and

stopper with raw cotton.

Keep the milk cold-on ice if possible. If you have no ice, wrap a cloth wrung out in cold water about the bottles.

If you have difficulty in keeping milk, bring it to a boil as soon as it is delivered to you.

Keep the things for the baby's milk separate.

Keep the things clean.

Scald them with boiling water before using.

Milk will spoil

if it is not kept cold.

if it is not kept covered.

if it is dirty.

if it has been put in dirty bottles or cans. if it is measured in dirty cans.

if it gets dust in it.

Relative Value of Metric and Avoirdupois Weight.

Gm. Ounces. Grains. Gm. Ounces. Gr. Gm. Ounces. Gr.

-

4 + 179
5 + 127

125
150

200

700

32.00

1 + 56

50

1 + 334

250

8 +358

750

=

26+ 198

A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS ON FOOD AND DIET.
Quite a complete list of books on the subject of dietetics will
be found in the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's
Library. In addition to these and to the short list here given
the reader is referred to the numerous valuable contributions
published by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Atwater, in report of New York Lunacy Commission, 1897-1900.

Bauer, "Dietary of the Sick," in von Ziemssen's Handbook of General
Therapeutics.

Biedert, Die Kinderernährung im Säuglingsalter, 1900.

Blyth, A. W., Diet in Relation to Health and Work.

Blyth, A. W., Foods and their Composition and Analysis.

Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout (this has been translated a number of
times; the best is "A Hand-book of Gastronomy," London, 1884).
Chambers, Manual of Diet in Health and Disease.

Chapin, H. D., The Theory and Practice of Infant Feeding, 1902.
Czerny and Keller, Des Kindes-Ernährung und Ernährungstherapie.

Davis, N. S., "Dieto-therapy," in Cohen's System of Physiologic Therapeutics.
Dujardin-Beaumetz, L'hygiene Alimentaire des Boissons.

Haig, A., Diet and Food, 1898.

Hart, Mrs. Ernest, Diet in Sickness and Health, 1895.

Hutchison, Food and Dietetics.

Von Leyden, Handbuch der Ernährungstherapie.

Muffett, Thomas, Health Improvement, 1655.

Munk and Uffelmann, Die Ernährung des gesunden und kranken Menschen,

1891.

Von Noorden, "Diabetes," in Twentieth Century Practice.

Von Noorden, Diseases of Metabolism and Nutrition, parts 1 and 2-" Nephri-

tis and Obesity."

Von Noorden, Pathologie des Stoffwechsels.

Oertel, "Obesity," in Twentieth Century Practice.

Parkes, Hygiene, eighth edition.

Pavy, Food and Dietetics.

Penzoldt and Stintzing, Handbuch der Therapie.

Roberts, Sir W., Lectures on Dietetics and Dyspepsia.

Sée, G., Du Régime Alimentaire.

Starr, Louis, The Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Childhood.

Thompson, Sir Henry, Diet in Relation to Age and Activity.

Thompson, Sir Henry, Food and Feeding.

Thompson, W. G., Practical Dietetics.

Wegele, C., Die Diätetische Behandlung der Magen-Darmerkrankungen mit
einem Anhang: Die diätetische Küche.

Weir-Mitchell, Fat and Blood.

Yeo, Food in Health and Disease.

INDEX.