ABSTRACT
Food gives pleasure, and the person who gives the food is associated with this so that the emotions of attachment and love are observed. There is a real analogy between the two acts of voluntarily stopping a troublesome cough for a time and that of not appropriating a forbidden piece of food by a child. The nutritive power in a child is stronger than in a man. It grows the first year of its existence far more in proportion to its weight than in any subsequent year of life. The faculty of speech ts the most interesting and astonishing combination of a mental and bodily problem in existence. Its progress is surrounded by many pitfalls. The chapter considers some of the abnormal conditions which should be recognised, and many of which require attention or treatment. The brain of a child, receiving, as it does, millions of impressions and stimuli may be too reactive or it may not be reactive enough.
