A good plan is, for the nurse-maid to have a half-pint bottle of new milk--which has been previously boiled [Footnote: The previous boiling of the milk will prevent the warmth of the bed turning the milk sour, which it otherwise would do.]--in the bed, so as to give a little to him in lieu of the breast. The warmth of the body will keep the milk of a proper temperature, and will supersede the use of lamps, of candle-frames, and of other troublesome contrivances. 42. _While a mother is weaning her infant, and after she have weaned him, what ought to be his diet_? Any one of the foods recommended in answer to question 34. 43. _If a child be suffering severely from "wind," is there any objection to the addition of a small quantity either of gin or of peppermint to his food to disperse it_? It is a murderous practice to add either gin or peppermint of the shops (which is oil of peppermint dissolved in spirits) to his food. Many children have, by such a practice, been made puny and delicate, and have gradually dropped into an untimely grave. An infant who is kept, for the first five or six months, _entirely_ to the breast--more especially if the mother be careful in her own diet--seldom suffers from "wind;" those, on the contrary, who have much or improper food, [Footnote: For the first five or six months never, if you can possibly avoid it, give artificial food to an infant who is sucking. There is nothing, in the generality of cases, that agrees, for the first few months, like the mother's milk _alone_.] suffer severely. Care in feeding, then, is the grand preventative of "wind;" but if, notwithstanding all your precautions, the child be troubled with flatulence, the remedies recommended under the head of Flatulence will generally answer the purpose. 44. _Have you any remarks to make on sugar for sweetening a baby's food_? A _small_ quantity of sugar in an infant's food is requisite, sugar being nourishing and fattening, and making cow's milk to resemble somewhat, in its properties human milk; but, bear in mind, _it must be used sparingly._ _Much_ sugar cloys the stomach, weakens the digestion, produces acidity, sour belchings, and wind:-- "Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour." _Shakspeare._ If a babe's bowels be either regular or relaxed, _lump_ sugar is the best for the purpose of sweetening his food; if his bowels are inclined to be costive, _raw_ sugar ought to be substituted for lump sugar, as _raw_ sugar acts on a young babe as an aperient, and, in the generality of cases, is far preferable to physicking him with opening medicine. An infant's bowels, whenever it be practicable (and it generally is), ought to be regulated by a judicious dietary rather than by physic. VACCINATION AND RE-VACCINATION. 45. _Are you an advocate for vaccination_?