well known as an excellent French writer on medicine, has lately issued a second edition of his work on the management of infants. From a review of it in the Medico-Chirurgical Review, wo take the following remarks.] Wet-nursing is the general rule in France, the exception in England. Not only is there a vastly greater proportion of destitute and orphan infants in the former country, but even in the middle and comparatively easy classes great numbers of women put their children out to nurse

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... teen or twenty thousand are annually sent from Paris) in order that they may have leisure to attend to the affairs of life, which with us devolve on the husband. The procuring and negotiating for nurses is a separate and profitable occupation. Not only has the government a central depot for such women to resort to be hired, but numbers. of offices are opened