Trade or profession for a delicate youth, 308 Treatment of the delicate, 226 Treatment of some urgent serious diseases, 79, 171 Truth, the love of, 147 Tub, commencement of washing an infant in a, 20 Tumbling and rolling of a child, 154 Vaccination, the advantages of, 53 Veal for a child, the objection to, 126 Vegetables for a child, 126 Ventilation, and on stopping of chimneys, 150, 230 Ventilation and sleep, 308 Ventilation of a nursery, 134 Violet powder, to make, 23 Walking, on the early, of infants, 151 Walking exercise, value of, 291 Walking in his sleep, a child, 168 Warm baths for children, 253 Warm external applications, 254 Warts, the best remedy to destroy, 339 Washing of a child, remarks upon the, 108 Washing of an infant, remarks upon the, 19 Washing a new-born infant’s head with brandy, 21 Washing a nursery floor, 136 Wasp, the sting of a, 268 Water, on the importance of good, 127 Water on the brain, 173 Water, cold and warm, for ablution, 107 Weather, on a child almost living in the air in fine, 153 Weather, on sending the young out in wet, 153 Wet flannel application, 255 White lily leaf for bruises, 257 Whom, and how, to nurse the young, 44 Whom to select as a nurse for feeble children, 47 Windows of a nursery should be large, 138 Windpipe, foreign substance in the, 273 Wine for children and youths, 130, 288 Winter clothing, the time to leave off, 116 Woolen garments, the use of, 113, 282 THE END. TO THE READER. Before presenting a few from the numerous commendations to this invaluable work, we desire to furnish the _verbatim_ copy of an able letter addressed to the editor by JOHN BELL, M.D., author of treatises on “Baths” and “Mineral Waters,” “Regimen and Longevity,” “Health and Beauty,” etc., etc. The eminent services, as an editor and author, rendered by DR. BELL to the profession will cause his words to sink deeply in the minds and hearts of thousands of parents and physicians, who have alike been profited by his skill and wisdom. THE PUBLISHERS. PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 1871. F. H. GETCHELL, M.D.