Cases are frequently met with, especially in infants and older children whose digestion has been completely ruined by being fed too often. These cases are not really overfed, because the entire amount in the twenty-four hours, does not exceed the requisite quantity; but giving the food in driblets and at short intervals, causes lactic fermentation, or in plain English, the food sours on the stomach and does not digest, as it would do if a proper time were interposed between each feeding. As soon as the patients are fed at regular and longer intervals, say, from two to four hours, the indigestion corrects itself. During the interval, between the time set for feeding, the children will naturally cry; this is interpreted by the mother or nurse as a sign of hunger, but nothing is oftener further from the truth. The child cries generally for one of three reasons: one of these may be that it wants to be taken up, and dandled or rocked, to which previous indulgences have accustomed it; or it may have pain in the stomach and bowels as a natural result of indigestion or flatulence; or the child may cry from thirst or a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat; in any event, additional food would only prove injurious. There is no objection against giving nurslings cold water between their meals when they are thirsty or feverish, but warm aromatic tea is so very much superior that I consider it one of the essentials of the nursery. I mean fennel seed tea, of which a sufficient quantity should be prepared every morning to last twenty-four hours; this should be strained and sweetened, then set aside for further use. When the child is restless, between meals, some of the tea should be warmed, and given from the nursing bottle until it is satisfied, for the tea soothes the pain, quenches the thirst and dispels the flatus. There are also physiological reasons for these longer intervals between nursing; they allow the stomach sufficient time to dispose of its contents before another mess is given to disturb the digestion of former food, which is as yet incomplete. There is another immense advantage in having the length of time between two meals from two to four hours; it allows time for medication and other necessary management of the sick, for sponging off with cold water in fevers, and many other things which are necessary for the patient’s comfort and convalescence, and which can only be carried out between the times the nourishment is given. A memorandum should be kept in the sick room and the time and hour noted when everything becomes due in proper order; this avoids confusion and lessens labor.