It is also hoped that the book will meet the require ments of practitioners, who rarely have the time to direct in detail the management of children's diet. It is not the intention of the author to advise where a phy sician is needed, but rather to suggest to the mother or nurse when he should be sent for, and how he may be aided in his efforts by the exercise of intelligence and judgment in the selection and preparation of foods indicated 'for various ages and varying conditions of illness and convalescence. Owing to differences of temperament and constitution, each case needs indi vidualization: hence, when there is the least doubt, even in conditions of health, a physician should be consulted without delay. In the hope, therefore, that when a physician is available the counsel given will be explicitly followed, this little book is earnestly com mended to mothers and those in charge of children, as well as to physicians who may wish to be relieved of the tediousness of making Specific the general laws regulating dietetic practice.

The author is deeply indebted to T. M. Rotch, M.D., Boston, for the use of his book Pediatrics, and to Samuel S. Adams, M.D., Washington, Leroy M. Yale, M.D., New York, and Edgar Dubs Shimer, ph.d.

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