If any eruption does not yield promptly to change of diet or clothing, and the simple remedies suggested, send for your physician. Never take chances on skin diseases. While attending Better Babies Contests I have been amazed at the careless way in which comparatively intelligent mothers discuss worms and their treatment with patent medicines. Young babies, either nursing or bottle-fed, are seldom subject to worms. They more often attack older children, especially country children who drink well water. The symptoms are bad breath, gritting the teeth in the sleep, irritation of the nostrils, which makes the child pick at his nose, loss of appetite, anemia, headache, and dizziness. Many of these symptoms often come from ordinary indigestion. The only way to decide what really lies behind the symptoms is to have the stools examined. The worms themselves will not be found in the stools, but the eggs can be detected by the aid of a microscope. The most common form of worms is the thread-worm, which looks like small broken pieces of white thread, from one-third to one-half inch long. The roundworm and tapeworm are rarely found. No mother should attempt to treat this trouble, either before or after she has learned that the child has worms. She must never administer patent medicines, but must turn her child over to the care of a physician, who will prescribe medicine. Rickets is one of the most serious ailments which attack the young baby. It is not an acute but a chronic disease due to malnutrition. It overtakes the baby gradually, between six months and two years, and seems to strike chiefly at the bones. The first symptoms are fretfulness, sleeplessness, pallor, and sweating of the head. The child threatened with rickets wears off the hair at the back of the head, in its restlessness, and its pillow is always wet from perspiration. Gradually the abdomen becomes enlarged and out of proportion to the child’s other measurements. The teething is delayed, and the baby cannot sit up or walk as early as a normal child should. The little baby is usually constipated and suffers from general intestinal trouble. It is subject to colds, and it may have convulsions. If the condition is neglected the mother suddenly discovers that the child looks deformed. Some of the bones become enlarged; the chest is barrel-shaped; and when the baby begins to walk he is bow-legged because the bones are so soft. If the child survives the illness it is often so deformed that it is marked for life. If the disease is discovered and treated promptly the child becomes strong and outgrows most of the defects. Rickets is generally caused by improper feeding, by proprietary foods without the needed amount of fresh milk, or by fresh milk and foods that do not contain enough fat or cream. The prolonged use of boiled or sterilized milk, also, will cause rickets.