I SHALL conclude with some Things of the Care of Infants newly born; a Subject the more interesting, as our Natives are known greatly to decrease from the free Use of Spirituous Liquors; which Loss might in some Degree be repaired by a better Care of their Offspring, who are not only expos’d to suffer by the Ignorance of Midwives, but must undergo a second Martyrdom from swadling and cramming. Their fond Nurses greatly contribute to the general Cause of all their Distempers, _Indigestion_, frequently feeding them ’till they return it by the Mouth, which under these Circumstances, unless supply’d by a Looseness, is the only Means of their Preservation from more immediate Death. This Overcharge of their Stomachs, producing Crudities, gives them the most excruciating Pains in their Bowels; occasioning very often Fevers and Convulsions, and yet their Cries are customarily appeas’d by more Food, furnishing an Encrease of sharp Crudities in their Bowels; and ’tis well if Syrup of Poppies, _Godfrey_’s Cordial, or some other Opiate, be not given to stifle their Complaints, but in Effect to encrease the Mischief, by confining the Acrimony of an Overload within them. Infants are born with their Stomachs and Intestines charged with the Recrements of the Humours in which they swim, before Birth, and the glandular Secretions within them, which will naturally purge away with the first Milk they draw from the Mother’s Breast; and they would sleep, were they not too soon fed, ’till this Provision of Nature is ready for them, as Dr. CADOGAN found from Experience in his own Family; but as the Humour of Feeding them sooner generally obtains, and the Mother too often is not the Nurse; Half a Drachm of _Castile_ Soap diffolv’d in a Spoonful or two of thin Caudle, and sweetened with Honey, would cleanse the Child, and prevent many Distempers, owing to a Retention of Impurities within them before the Birth, if given soon after. ’Tis well worth remarking, that the Food the Nurse takes communicates its Nature to the Milk, so that the Child may be intoxicated by her giving Suck too soon after strong Drink or Spirituous Liquors, by which Means many are destroy’d; it is likewise well known, if the Nurse takes a Purge, her Milk will purge the Child.