Infant feeding by artificial means : a scientific and practical treatise on the dietetics of infancy / by S.H. Sadler.

  • Sadler, S. H.
Date:
1896
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    four months, the total quantity for each meal beino^ from 8 to 12 tablespoonfuls . After mentioning several ways of preparing milk for infant use, Dr. Starr says : ^ Another good food is that recommended by Dr. A. V. Meigs. It consists of a combination of two parts of cream, containing from fourteen to sixteen per cent, of fat, one part average milk, two parts lime water, and three parts sugar water, the latter consisting of seventeen and three-fourths drachms of milk sugar to one pint of water. This makes an alkaline mixture with the percentage of its ingredients closely corresponding to human milk. Dr. Starr gives the age of six weeks as the age at which a milk of this descrip- tion may be borne. Dr. Meigs ^ gives the measurements for the above as 2 tablespoonfuls of cream, 1 of milk, 2 of lime water, and 3 of the sugar water ; of the latter Dr. Meigs says : There must be obtained from a re- liable druggist packages of pure milk sugar contain- ing seventeen and three-quarters (17f) drachms each. The contents of one package is to be dis- solved in a pint of water, and it is best to have a bottle which will contain just one pint, as there is then no need for farther measuring. The contents of one of the sugar packages is put into the bottle, ^Dietetics of Infancy and Childhood, Annual of Universal Medical Science, vol. iv., p. 267. Milk Analysis and Infant Feeding, pp. 75, 76.