~Use of Laxative Foods.~--After the baby is a few months old, orange juice is given between the morning feedings. Malted foods likewise exert a laxative effect. The higher the percentage of maltose, the more laxative the food. The nurse must keep this point in mind in feeding babies. With older children and adults, the question of diet for constipation is quite as important as it is for infants. Prunes or figs cooked with senna leaves and thoroughly strained furnish an excellent adjunct to the diet under such conditions. The coarse breads such as bran and Graham or wholewheat bread should be used instead of white flour breads. Care should be taken in advising a cereal diet for children, since cereals, with the exception of oats, are apt to be constipating. Fresh fruits, stewed fruits, and fresh vegetables are all good under the above-mentioned conditions. Young children require the vegetables strained or cut fine. Adults should include one coarse vegetable a day in their dietary to obviate the development of constipation. Children should be taught to drink plenty of water, and babies should not be neglected in this respect. As a rule very few adults drink as much water as is necessary for the general welfare of their bodies. SCURVY There is probably no disease of infancy which has come in for more study in the past few years than scurvy. ~Cause.~--The disease is believed to be directly due to a deficiency in the diet of the antiscorbutic vitamine, known as "Water soluble C." ~Treatment.~--For many years it was known that lime juice exerted a curative effect upon scurvy. But recently the efficiency of this fruit juice has proved to fall far short of that effected by either orange, or tomato juice. Feeding experiments have proved that animals, fed upon rations consisting of dry food without the addition of green, will develop scurvy. And that the milk of such animals will show a deficiency in the "C" vitamine which will lead to a development of the disease in infants fed upon such milk. Milk is, in fact, by no means a perfect food, so far as its vitamine content is concerned. First, because the presence of the vitamine in milk is so dependent upon the diet of the mother or the animal, second, because the pasteurization temperatures used to insure cow's milk of purity from a bacterial standpoint, destroys in it the greater part of its antiscorbutic power. Either of which makes it necessary to supplement the formula of the artificially fed infant, and, in case of the former, the mother's milk of the breast-fed baby, with orange, or canned tomato juice.