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Section III – What usually happens when the foetus is nourished (De iis quae circa fetum alendum contingere solent)
XXIII. Choice and moderation of the wet-nurse (De nutrice eligenda ac moderanda)
XXIV. Lack of breastmilk (De lactis defectu)
XXV. Excess of breastmilk (De lactis redundantia)
XXVI. Coagulation of breastmilk, “capillary” disease or milk fever (De lactis concretione, morbo pilari seu febre lactis)
XXVII. Recovery of abnormal breastmilk (De lactis vitiosi emendatione)
XXVIII. How to care for the newborn child (Qua ratione tractandus infans recens natus)
XXIX. How long should the child be breast-fed and how should porridge/purée be prepared (Quam diu lactandus puer et quae ratio parandae pulticulae)
XXX. Diseases that usually afflict new-borns (De morbis qui recenter natis contingere solent)