The sugar of milk should first be dissolved in the warm water, and then the fresh milk _unboiled_ should be mixed with it. The sweetening of the above food with sugar-of-milk, instead of with lump sugar, makes the food more to resemble the mother's own milk. The infant will not, probably, at first take more than half of the above quantity at a time, even if he does so much as that but still the above are the proper proportions, and as he grows older, he will require the whole of it at a meal. 34. _What food, when a babe is six or seven months old, is the best substitute for a mother's milk?_ The food that suits one infant will not agree with another. (1) The one that I have found the most generally useful, is made as follows--Boil the crumb of bread for two hours in water, taking particular care that it does not burn, then add only a _little_ lump-sugar (or _brown_ sugar, if the bowels be costive), to make it palatable. When he is six or seven months old, mix a little new milk--the milk of ONE cow--with it gradually as he becomes older, increasing the quantity until it be nearly all milk, there being only enough water to boil the bread, the milk should be poured boiling hot on the bread. Sometimes the two milks--the mother's and the cow's milk--do not agree, when such is the case, let the milk be left out, both in this and in the foods following, and let the food be made with water, instead of with milk and water. In other respects, until the child is weaned, let it be made as above directed, when he is weaned, good fresh cow's milk MUST, as previously recommended, be used. (2) Or cut thin slices of bread into a basin, cover the bread with _cold_ water, place it in an oven for two hours to bake, take it out, beat the bread up with a fork, and then slightly sweeten it. This is an excellent food. (3) If the above should not agree with the infant (although, if properly made, they almost invariably do), "tous les-mois" may be given. [Footnote: "Tous les mois" is the starch obtained from the tuberous roots of various species of _canna_, and is imported from the West Indies. It is very similar to arrow root. I suppose it is called "tous les-mois," as it is good to be eaten all the year round.](4) Or Robb's Biscuits, as it is "among the best bread compounds made out of wheat-flour, and is almost always readily digested."--_Routh_.