to supply the waste and repair of all animal life, should be selected,
given, or used according to good judgment and experience.

Thus, mothers should feed their infants at regular intervals according
to their age, and not permit them to constantly pull at the breast or
the bottle until the little stomach becomes gorged with food, and some
alimentary disorder supervenes, often setting up a rash and
interfering with the growth and development of the hair. It is
likewise important, in case the baby must be artificially fed, to
select good nutritious food as near as possible like the
mother's--cow's milk, properly prepared, being the only recognized
substitute. Care and discretion should likewise be taken by parents
and nurses, after the infant has developed into childhood, to give
simple, substantial, and varied food at regular periods of the day,
and not in such quantities as to overload the stomach. Children need
active nutrition to develop them into robust and healthy men and
women; and it is from neglect of these important laws of health, and
in allowing improper food, that very often bring their results in
scald head, ring-worm, and scrofula, that leave their stamp in the
poor development of the hair. With the advent of youth and the advance
of years, food should be selected and partaken of according to the
judgment and experience of its acceptable and wholesome action on the
consumer.

The meals should also be taken at regular intervals. At least four
hours should be left between them for the act of digestion and the
proper rest of the stomach.

It is, on the contrary, when the voice of nature has been stifled,
when judgment and experience have been set aside, that mischief