Horse exercise for boys or girls, 292 Horse and pony exercise, 292 Hot water bag or bottle, the use of a, 254 Household work for girls as a means of health, 305 Hydrophobia, antidote for, 266 Hysterics, when a lady is most prone to, 344, 346 India-rubber hot water bottle, use of an, 254 Infants and the use of aperients, 77 Infants should be encouraged to use exertion, 69 Infants, about the weight of, 74 Infant schools, health in, 160 Infant, wheezing of an, 77 Ipecacuanha wine, preservation of, 179 Ladies “affecting the saddle”, 296 Laudanum, treatment in case of poisoning by, 269 Law, physic and divinity, 306 Leaden cisterns, using water from, 127 Learning without health, 237 Leech-bites, the way to restrain bleeding from, 105 Lessons, confining a child to his, 158 Lice on the head after illness, 234 Light, best artificial, for nursery, 138 Light, the importance of, to health, 138 Lime in the eye, to remove, 264 Lime to harden the bones, 248 Lime-water and milk, the use of, 125 Love of children, the results of, 144 Lucifer matches, the poisonous effects of, 138, 260 Luncheon for a child, the, 125 Lungs, inflammation of the, 113, 181 Lungs, inflammation of, precautions to prevent, 236 Lungs, inflammation of, symptoms of, 181 Lungs, inflammation of, treatment of, 182 Lying lips of a child, the, 147 Mad dog, the bite of a, 266 Mad dog, a description of a, 267 Magnesia to cool a child, 87 Manner and proper time for turning a child to artificial food, 50, 51 Many die under five years of age, 43 Mattresses, horse-hair, best for a child, 164 Meals should be varied, a child’s, 128 Measles described, the symptoms of, 193 Measles and scarlet fever, the, 196 Measles, the treatment of the, 194 Meat, daily, on giving a boy, 287 Meat, raw, in long-standing disease, 227 Meat, in exhaustive diseases, 227 Meat, when a child should commence taking, 118 Meddlesome treatment of wiseacres, 250 Medical man, a mother’s treatment toward the, 250 Medicine, the best way of administering, 228 Medicine, on giving new-born infants, 78 Medicine, on making palatable, 229 Mercury, on the danger of parents giving, 85, 331 Milk, on the importance of having it from ONE cow, 36, 45 Milk, bad, very nasty, 123 Milk for babe indispensable, 46 Milk, or meat, or both, 124 Milk, a plan to make a child take, 124 Milk, the value of, for children, 121 Milk, a way to prevent, turning sour, 125 Milk-crust, a troublesome complaint, 249 Mismanaged, children, through want of instruction, 18 Modified small-pox and chicken-pox, 209 Mother, fretting, injurious to infant, 50 Mother, a foolish, course of, 75 Mother, the, of many diseases, 324 Mother should supervise the mixing of milk, 36 Motions, to understand the, of children, 90 Mumps, the best treatment of, 217 Nature’s remedies the best, 106 Nervous and unhappy young ladies, 340