How to prepare milk mixtures--Sterilizing the food for the day's feeding--How to test the temperature of the food for baby--When to increase the quality or quantity of food--Food allowable during the first year in addition to milk--Beef-juice--White of egg--Orange juice--Peptonized milk--The hot or immediate process--The cold process--Partially peptonized milk--Completely peptonized milk--Uses of peptonized milk--Objections to peptonized milk--What a mother should know about baby's feeding bottle and nipple--Should a mother put her baby on artificial food if her supply of milk during the first two weeks is not quite enough to satisfy it--Certain conditions justify the adoption of artificial feeding from the beginning--Mothers' mistakes in the preparation of artificial food--Feeding during the second year--Sample meals for a child three years of age--The diet of older children--Meats, vegetables, cereals, bread, desserts, fruits ... PAGE 259 WHAT MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW CHAPTER XXI THE EDUCATION OF THE MOTHER What mothers should know about the care of children during illness--A sick child should be in bed--The diet of the sick child--A child is the most helpless living thing--The delicate child--How to feed the delicate child--How to bathe the delicate child--Airing the delicate child--Habits of the delicate child--Indiscriminate feeding--Poor appetite--Loss of appetite--Treatment of loss of appetite--Overeating in infancy--What correct eating means--Bran as a food--Breakfast for a child at school--Lunch for a child at school--Bran muffins for school children--Bran muffins in constipation--Hysterical children--What a mother should know about cathartics and how to give a dose of castor oil--Castor oil--Calomel--Citrate of Magnesium--When to use castor oil--When to use calomel--Vaccination--Time for vaccination--Methods of vaccination--Symptoms of successful vaccination ... PAGE 277 CHAPTER XXII CONSTIPATION IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN Constipation--Regularity of bowel function--The function of the stomach--Fermentation--Incomplete constipation--Importance of a clean bowel--A daily movement of the bowel necessary--Constipation in breast-fed infants--Treatment of constipation in breast-fed infants--Constipation in bottle-fed infants--Treatment of constipation in bottle-fed infants--Constipation in children over two years of age--Diet list for constipation in children--Bran muffins in constipation--Treatment of obstinate constipation--Oil injections in constipation ... PAGE 303 CHAPTER XXIII CONSTIPATION IN WOMEN