Overfeeding an infant may lay the foundation for a lifelong ailment. The excess of food remains in the stomach or bowels undigested. If you remember that this mass of undigested matter is confined in a small space which is both warm and damp, it will be easily understood that putrefaction is the inevitable outcome. As a result of this putrefaction there are produced certain ptomaines and leucomaines. These poisons are carried through the body, causing "auto-intoxication" which upsets and irritates the child's nervous system and may cause very serious consequences, as it frequently produces sudden death from apoplexy and "heart failure" in the adult. These children are always restless, fretful, continually uncomfortable, sleepless and colicky. They lose weight, the stomach becomes distended and a gastritis or inflammation of the stomach results. Frequently a mother with such a fretful baby, seeing her child getting thinner and thinner, will think that it is not getting enough to eat, and will proceed to add to the trouble by giving the child more to eat. Mothers must therefore learn not to overfeed their infants; not to imagine that a failure to gain weight means the need of more food (if the quality of the food being given is wrong, will increasing the quantity of bad food do any good?); not to feed irregularly, no matter how insistent the child may be. INTERVALS OF FEEDING.--The physician will give instructions regarding the feeding of the newly born baby for the first few days. After the first few days and up to the beginning of the third month, it should be fed every two hours from 7 A. M. until 9 P. M., and twice during the night between 9 P. M. and 7 A. M., when the regular two-hours' interval again begins for the following day. The two night feedings should be about 1 and 4:30 A. M. After the third month, and up to the sixth month, feed every three hours and once during the night. From the sixth month until weaned, every three and one-half or four hours, and not at all during the night. While it has been pointed out that regularity of feeding is absolutely essential, the above schedule is not to be regarded as an absolute guide. It is a general guide,--approximately it will be found correct in a large majority of cases. Each baby is a rule unto itself. The quantity of the mother's milk will dictate the interval after the first month and for each month as the baby grows. If a mother with no milk to spare, is nursing a big, strong, husky baby, the three-hour interval during the day may have to be shortened to two and one-half hours. As a rule, however, these exceptions are better regulated by attention to the time the baby is given at each nursing to fill its stomach.