EMACIATION In case of slight emaciation or lack of fat, the child should be given an olive-oil rub once or twice a week, rubbing gently into the skin about one teaspoonful of oil. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHILDREN AFTER ONE YEAR All children, whether breast-fed or bottle-fed, are subject to practically the same health rules after they are about one year old. Therefore I will now consider all children in the same class, and lay out for them what may be termed general instructions in health and hygiene. Care should be exercised to omit from the diet of children just beginning to take solid food, all articles that will not dissolve readily without mastication. GENERAL DIET FROM AGES ONE TO TWO The diet from the first to the second year should consist of: Baked apples Baked potatoes--sweet or white Cereal--limited quantity (thoroughly cooked) Cream soups--home-made, such as: Cream of celery Onion Potato Rice Tomato, etc. Eggs Milk Pulp of soft ripe fruits Vegetables--thoroughly mashed, such as: {Asparagus Fresh {Squash {Spinach The above vegetables contain much cellulose or pulp which should be entirely discarded, leaving only the meat or purée; but to the child from eleven to fifteen months old, they should be administered in very limited quantities. SIMPLICITY IN FEEDING Especial attention should be given to simplicity in feeding: 1 Avoid giving too many things at the same meal; from three to four articles at one time are sufficient 2 Mothers should be especially cautioned against giving a child bread made with yeast, or baking powder, and against the old diet of milk toast 3 All meat, flesh food, stimulants or narcotics of every kind should be omitted from the diet of children 4 The crowning mistake of the doting mother is often made in feeding her child from the conventional table, on such things as weakened coffee or tea, meats, and condiments 5 The custom of giving children an excess of sweets has ruined millions of little stomachs, and has given them a heritage of dis-ease and suffering before they have entered their 'teens 6 All condiments, such as pepper, salt, vinegar, pickles, and all pungent things should be eliminated from the diet of children--the taste of the child is very susceptible to cultivation, and with very little encouragement it will accept things that have no place in the human economy, and which are positively harmful 7 When a child begins teething, it may be given a small piece of hard water-cracker with safety If the above rules are observed, it is reasonable to assume that normal hunger of the child will guide it very correctly in selecting, proportioning, and combining its food through the period of childhood until it enters the period of youth. OLD AGE [Sidenote: Necessity for old age diet]