She must endeavour to calm her feelings or her milk will be disordered, and she will thus materially increase his illness. If he be labouring under any inflammatory disorder, she ought to refrain from the taking of beer, wine, and spirits, and from all stimulating food; otherwise, she will feed his disease. Before concluding the first part of my subject--the Management of Infancy--let me again urge upon you the importance--the paramount importance--if you wish your babe to be strong and hearty,--of giving him as little opening physic as possible. The best physic for him is Nature's physic--fresh air, and exercise, and simplicity of living. A mother who is herself always drugging her child, can only do good to two persons--the doctor and the druggist! If an infant from his birth be properly managed,--if he have an abundance of fresh air for his lungs,--if he have plenty of exercise for his muscles (by allowing him to kick and sprawl on the floor),--if he have a good swilling and sousing of water for his skin,--if, during the _early_ months of his life, he have nothing but the mother's milk for his stomach,--he will require very little medicine--the less the better! He does not want his stomach to be made into a doctor's shop! The grand thing is not to take every opportunity of administering physic, but of using every means of with-holding it! And if physic be necessary, not to doctor him yourself, unless it be in extreme and urgent cases (which in preceding and succeeding Conversations I either have or will indicate), but to employ an experienced medical man. A babe who is always, without rhyme or reason, being physicked, is sure to be puny, delicate, and unhealthy, and is ready at any moment to drop into an untimely grave! I will maintain that a healthy child _never_ requires drugging with opening physic, and that costiveness is brought on by bad management. Aperient medicines to a healthy child are so much poison! _Let me impress the above remarks on every mother's mind;_ for it is a subject of vital importance. Never, then, give a purgative to a healthy child; for, if he be properly managed, he will never require one. If you once begin to give aperients, you will find a difficulty discontinuing them. Finally, I will only say with _Punch_,--"Don't" CONCLUDING REMARKS ON INFANCY.