The first food given to a new-born child should be honey, and afterwards
milk, twice, or at most three times a day. When it appears disposed
for it, and seems able to digest it, it may get some food, care being
taken not to stuff it. If this should happen to be the case, it will
become more sleepy and inactive, there will be swelling of the belly and
flatulence, and its urine will be more watery than natural. When this is
observed, it ought to get no more food until what it has got be consumed.
The child may be brought up upon milk until it be two years old, after
which, its diet may be changed to food from grain.
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