If a child's bowels be relaxed and weak, or if the motions be offensive, the milk _must_ be boiled, but not otherwise. The following (17) is a good food when an infant's bowels are weak and relaxed:--"Into five large spoonfuls of the purest water, rub smooth one dessert-spoonful of fine flour. Set over the fire five spoonfuls of new milk, and put two bits of sugar into it; the moment it boils, pour it into the flour and water, and stir it over a slow fire twenty minutes." Where there is much emaciation, I have found (18) genuine arrow-root [Footnote: Genuine arrow-root, of first-rate quality, and at a reasonable price, may be obtained of H. M. Plumbe, arrow-root merchant, 8 Alie Place. Great Alie Street. Aldgate, London, E.] a very valuable article of food for an infant, as it contains a great deal of starch, which starch helps to form fat and to evolve caloric (heat)--both of which a poor emaciated chilly child stands so much in need of. It must be made with equal parts of water and of good fresh milk, and ought to be slightly sweetened with loaf sugar; a small pinch of table salt should be added to it. Arrow-root will not, as milk will, give bone and muscle; but it will give--what is very needful to a delicate child--fat and warmth. Arrow-root, as it is principally composed of starch, comes under the same category as cream, butter, sugar, oil, and fat. Arrowroot, then, should always be given with new milk (mixed with one-half of water); it will then fulfil, to perfection, the exigencies of nourishing, of warming, and fattening the child's body. New milk, composed in due proportions as it is, of cream and of skim milk--the very acme of perfection--is the only food, _which of itself alone,_ will nourish and warm and fatten. It is, for a child, _par excellence,_ the food of foods! Arrow-root, and all other farinaceous foods are, for a child, only supplemental to milk--new milk being, for the young, the staple food of all other kinds of foods whatever. But bear in mind, _and let there be no mistake about it,_ that farinaceous food, be it what it may, until the child be six or seven months old, until, indeed, he _begin_ to cut his teeth, is not suitable for a child; until then, _The Milk-water-salt-and-sugar Food_ (see page 29) is usually, if he be a dry-nursed child, the best artificial food for him. I have given you a large and well-tried infant's dietary to chose from, as it is sometimes difficult to fix on one that will suit; but, remember, if you find one of the above to agree, keep to it, as a babe requires a simplicity in food--a child a greater variety.