Fainting from a disordered stomach, 330 Falling-off of hair, to prevent, 282 Falls on the head, the best course in case of, 257 Fashion, dangerous effects of strictly attending to, 285 Fashion, the present, of dressing children, 117 Fashionable _desiderata_ for complexion, 342 Favoritism both hurtful and wrong, 147 Feeding of infants, proper time to begin the, 42 Feeding of infants, proper intervals for the, 42 Feet, remedy for smelling, 339 Feet, remedy for sweating, 339 Feet, remedy for tender, 339 Female dress in ball-room, 285 Fire, on a child playing with, 260 Fire, danger of sitting with the back to, 136 Fire, the use of, in night nursery, 166 Fire, the manner of extinguishing, if clothes be on, 260 Fire-guards, the use of, 135, 260 Fire-proof, dresses can be made perfectly, 261 Flannel night-gowns, the wearing of, 113 Flannel shirts for a delicate child, 113 Flannel waistcoats, nothing equal to, 282 Fleas, best way to drive away, 235 Flute, bugle and other wind instruments, 296 Fly-pole as an exercise for the muscles, 297 Fog, on sending child out in, 153 Folly of giving physic after vaccination, 57 Food, artificial, while using the natural, 42 Food, care in preparing infants’, 40 Food for infants artificially fed, 36, 44 Food for infants naturally fed, 36 Frightening a child should never be indulged in, 140 Fruit, as an aperient, 222 Garters impede the circulation, 114 Gin or peppermint in infants’ food, 51 Giving joy to a child, 143 Glass, a child swallowing broken, 272 Gluttony kills more than the sword, 290 Glycerin soap, an excellent remedy, 242 Goat’s milk as a substitute, 44 _Godfrey’s Cordial_ as a remedy, 88 Godfrey’s Cordial, poisoning by, treatment in case of, 269 Grazed skin, the best application for a, 269 Great desideratum, 77 Green dresses are poisonous, 137, 286 Green paper-hangings for nurseries objectionable, 137 “Gripings,” symptoms, causes and treatment of, 89 “Gross superstition,” usual style of, 199 Gums, the lancing of the, 60 Gum-boil, cause and treatment of a, 336 Gum-sticks, the best of, 62 Gymnasium, the value of a, 295 Hair, the best application for the, 282 Hair, to perfume the, 282 Hair, plan of making tidy the, 281 Half-washed and half-starved child, the, 155 Hand-swing, the, a capital exercise, 296 Happiness to a child, importance of, 143 Happy, how to make a child, 143 Hards’ Farinaceous Food, 38 Hardening of children’s constitutions, 113 Hardening of infants, the, 71 Hats for a child, the best kind of, 112 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, on American ladies, 342 Head, if a child fall upon his, 257 Heat, external application of, 254 Hiccoughs of infants, causes of, 90 Hints conducive to the well-doing of a child, 139 Home of childhood—the nursery, 139 Hooping-cough, brief history of, 210 Hooping-cough an obstinate disease, 215 Hooping-cough, the treatment of, 212