Volume 1
Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton].
- John Roberton
- Date:
- 1827
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![After weaning, no immediate alteration is necessary in the quality of the food, unless it be, that cow’s milk may now be freely given; the stomach, at such an age, being able to digest it without difficulty. The quantity of food pro- per for the infant will depend upon obvious circumstances, and must, in every case, be left to the good sense of the superintendant. It should invariably be given at regular intervals : four meals in the day are sufficient; enough being allowed for each meal, all gormandizing in the intervals is courageously to be forbidden; and it requires courage to deny the cravings of a child, and good sense too. Children are admira- ble special pleaders, and singularly eloquent, when the stomach is concerned. They discover the assailable points of their nurse with instinc- tive acuteness ; and when harping on one chord fails, another is soon strung; and every note of the gamut is sounded till they have attained their end. The misfortune is, that they realize the poet’s words, which he applies to a very different class of feelings: with them “ increase of appetite [really] grows by what it feeds on ;” will frequently occur. In Autumn, infants are peculiarly disposed to bowel complaints, and this tendency is generally strengthened by changing from the breast milk to artificial food. In every case where weaning in this season is resolved upon, the state of the bowels cannot be too vigilantly watched.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33092837_0001_0166.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
