Perseverance in the measures prescribed, even when the case appears beyond all hope, must ever be the rule of conduct. Recovery, even in the most advanced periods of the disease, in cases apparently desperate, occasionally takes place. There is great reason to fear that many a child has been lost from a want of proper energy and perseverance on the part of the attendants in the sick room. They fancy the case is hopeless, and, to use their own expression, "they will not torment the child with medicine or remedies any longer." "Whilst there is life, there is hope," is a sentiment which may with great truth be applied to all the diseases of infancy and childhood. Striking, indeed, are the recoveries which occasionally present themselves to the notice of medical men; and those individuals may with great justice be charged with unpardonable neglect who do not persevere in the employment of the remedies prescribed, even up to the last hours of the child's existence. INDEX. Ablution, or sponging, 125. Abstinence, its good effect, in flatulence and griping in the infant, 50. 226. Accidents and diseases which may occur to the infant at birth or soon after, 187. Acids, injurious to the teeth, 159. Air and exercise, in infancy, 83. --, in childhood, 89. --, its importance to the mother whilst a nurse, 33. Animal food, in childhood, 55. --, its injurious effects upon the young and delicate child, 58. Aperient liniment, 107. --, medicine, 97. --, poultice, 104. Artificial feeding; the causes rendering it necessary, 34. Artificial food; the proper kind for the child before the sixth month, 35. --; the mode of administering it, 39. --; the quantity to be given at each meal, 42. --; the frequency of giving it, 43. --; the posture of the child when fed, 43. --; the proper kind for the child after the sixth month, to the completion of first dentition, 44. --; the kind most suitable under the different complaints to which infants are liable, 48. Bath, the cold-water, plunge-bath, 118. --, the shower, 123. --, the warm, 128. --, rules for the use of the warm bath, 131. Bathing, sea, 120. --, and cleanliness, during infancy, 72. --, during childhood, 75. Bleeding, from leech-bites, how controlled, 113. --, from the navel string, 201. --, navel, 203. Blisters, mode of application, 114. Bottle, nursing, 40. Bowels, disorder of, in the infant, 208. Breasts of the infant, swelling of, 195. Breathing, how affected by disease, 175. Calomel, danger in its use, 167. --, injurious to the teeth, 160. Carminative, Dalby's, 111. Carriage, "a good carriage;" how best obtained, 95. --; the sad results of the mode frequently adopted, 91. Castor oil, 99. Choice of a wet-nurse, rules for, 28. Cleanliness and bathing, 72. Clothing, in infancy, 78. --, in childhood, 81. Clysters, what kind best for children, 105. --, mode of application, 106. Cold, infants very susceptible of, 78. Convulsions, 112, 167. Cork-nipple teat, 41.