Modern Methods of Feeding in Infancy and Childhood.

In this edition the work has been brought down to date by the rewriting of sections on vitamins, condensed milk and artificial foods, and instructions for preparing lactic acid milk. New chapters have been added on diets for sick children and children of school age, stools in infancy, and a description of the common articles of diet with their uses and digestibility. There are also chapters on infant foods, breast feeding, artificial feeding, mixed feeding, dyspepsias in infancy and constipation. The material is clearly presented, and all points are as thoroughly covered as is possible in a small monograph. The general practitioner as well as the pediatrician will find in this book many points which will be of great help in the feeding of the infant, both the breast fed and the artificially fed. Exact guides cannot be given for the amount of food that the average healthy infant needs,