ALL which may be indifferently us’d, according to Pleasure, tho’ I take a small Spoonful of _Sugar’d Wine_, given twice or thrice a day, for the first four or five days running, to be the most preferable _Remedy_ for Prevention: By reason that the _Wine_ cuts and loosens the _Acid Humour_, preparing afterwards by _Concoction_ and _Digestion_ what remains, as the _Sugar_ temperates and helps to expurge the _Acrimony_: Which being duly done, I would order the INFANT always to rest, laying it not on its _Back_, but on its _Side_, that this _morbifick Matter_ may be the more commodiously voided by the _Mouth_, as already precautioned in _Chap._ 7.—— THIS _Humour_ being then thus prepared and discharg’d, the _Breast_ of some other clean and sound _Woman_ may be given the _CHILD_, until the _Mother’s Milk_ be purified for its proper _Use_; which it can scarce be supposed to be, before the _Dissolution_ of the _MILK-FEVER_, that is before the _ninth day_ after _DELIVERY_: From which time, it is to be maintain’d and nourish’d for the first three or four _Months_ by _BREAST-MILK_ only; augmenting however its _Allowance_ from day to day, in proportion to its _Age_ and _Strength_, that the weak _Stomach_ may never be overloaded, so as to occasion _Vomiting_, or (which is worse) a _DIARRHÆA_: To prevent which _Inconveniency_, let the _INFANT_ rather _suck often_, and a _little at a Time_, than too much at once. AFTER these first Months are over, a little thin _PAP_ may be given it every Morning, and in time twice a day; which is commonly made of _Flower_ and _Milk_, or _Ale_, with a little _Sugar_ and _Butter_: But because _FLOWER_ is of itself _humid_ and _viscid_, and may not only occasion _Pains_ and _Obstructions_, but also, engender _Gravel_ and _Worms_, it ought to be first well _dryed_ in a new or clean earthen _Pot_ in an _Oven_; or, what is better, the PAP may be made of the _Crumb_ of a Loaf: Which Diet is properly observ’d, until the time of _Teething_, laying it still, a little after its _Meal_, to rest upon its _Side_, or now and then upon its _Back_, with the _Head_ a little rais’d; however not in the _Bed_ with the NURSE, for fear of overlaying it, but in a CRADLE close by her _Bed-side_; always very carefully covering the CHILD’S _Face_, that the _Light_ may not offend its tender _Eyes_, and render them any ways _distorted_ or _goggled_: And as the INFANT may be brought up by the _Hand_ without _Suckling_, so it may easily be accustomed to Sleep without _Rocking_. But be that as it will, as soon as the _CHILD_ is furnish’d with TEETH, it is proper by degrees to use it to a little more solid _Food_, such as _Bread_ and tender _Meats_ or _Fleshes_, however, a little chewed by the _NURSE_: In the mean time no _Crude_, or _Meats_ of hard _Digestion_, are to be allow’d it, because _such_ Things produce a _Corruption_ of _Humours_, whence _Worms_ engender, and other various, grievous, and irregular _Symptoms_ arise.