Measles, 258. --, how distinguished from scarlet fever and small-pox, 255. Medicine, aperient, 97. Mercury, 107. Milk, the mother's; how to be preserved healthy during suckling, 3. --; deficiency of, 11. --; drying up of, 54. --, cow's; for infant's food, 35. --, ass's; for infant's food, 37. --, all kinds of, sometimes disagrees with the infant, 39. Mind, anxiety of; effects upon the parent's milk, 24. Moles and marks on the skin, 206. Mothers, their duty in relation to suckling, 3. --; those who ought never to suckle their children, 20. 24. 26. Motions of the infant; what the appearance of, and how frequent, in health, 99. 172. --; their deranged condition, a sign of disease, 173. Napkins, the infant's, 74. Navel, bleeding from, 203. --, ulceration or imperfect healing of, 202. Navel-string, bleeding from, 201. Naevi, or moles, 206. Nurses, wet, rules for the choice of, 28. --, diet and management of, 31. Nursery medicines, 97. Nursing, maternal, 3. --; the plan to be adopted for the first six months, 7. --; the plan to be followed after the sixth month to the time of weaning, 9. --; the injurious effects to the mother of undue and protracted suckling, 15. --; the injurious effects of undue and protracted suckling to the infant, 18. Opiates, 110. 297. --, in teething, dangerous, 145. Passion, its effect upon the breast-milk, 33. Porter, of its use, by the mother during suckling, 1 --, when mischievous, 4. Poultice, bread-and-water, how made, 116. --, mustard, how made and applied, 115. Purgative medicine, 97. Retention of urine in the infant, 194. Rhubarb, 103. Rules for nursing, 3. --, for the use of the warm bath, 181. Salt, as a condiment, 61. Scarlet fever, 239. --, how distinguished from measles, 245. Scrofulous constitution, 180. Sea-bathing, 120. Seasons (the), their influence in producing particular forms of disorder, 178. Shower-bath, 123. Signs of health in the infant, what, 168. --, of disease in the infant, what, 169. Skin of the infant, importance of its perfect cleanliness, 72. --, friction and sponging of, beneficial, 73. Sleep, during infancy, 66. --, childhood, 69. --, how affected when the child is ill, 171. Small-pox, 262. Spirituous liquors, their pernicious effects to children, 63. 296. Sponging, 125. Spoon-feeding, 39. Still-born, 187. Stomach and bowels, their derangement, a fruitful source of disease, 208. --, disorders of, in the infant at the breast, 210. --, disorders of, at the period of weaning, 217. --, disorders of, in the infant brought up by hand, 221. --, their treatment, 222. Stools of the infant, what the appearance of, and how frequent, in health, 99. 172. --, their deranged condition, a sign of disease, 173. Suckling, plan of, 3. --, by a wet-nurse, 27. Sugar, 60. Swelling of the breasts in the infant, 195. Teat of the cow--the artificial--the cork, 41.