Feeding and care of baby / by F. Truby King, issued by the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women & Children (Incorporated).
- Truby King
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Feeding and care of baby / by F. Truby King, issued by the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women & Children (Incorporated). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Postscript, London, September 1906. “ Returning to England, I am intensely interested to find that these questions are now deeply engaging the attention of the profession and practical philanthropists. [Dr. Pedley evidently refers to the series of enquiries instituted in England to get at the bottom of the causes underlying the alarming evidences of physical deterioration.] “ I have visited many parts of the country. Wherever I go the extraordinary prevalence of the use of the dummy has astonished me. In the streets or travelling by rail, I meet this thing ; the children playing on the sands have it in their mouths. In tens of thousands the mischief has been done, they are shamefully disfigured for life. It seems to me that the arrest of this evil is as deserving of the attention of our legislators as many of the subjects to which they devote so much time and energy. “What great responsibility rests upon us as a profession in regard to all these matters ! Let us endeavour to act up to our responsibilities, and with a united and decided voice denounce the many preventable causes of disease, which are doing so much to sap the vigour and to impoverish the blood of the splendid race so envied of all the world.” Fro. 54. (A) Typical Profile of Boy with Adenoids. Note open mouth, protruding upper teeth not covered by lip, small retreating lower jaw, and vacant expression. (This illustration is taken with kind permission from Diseases of Children, by Pfaundler and Schlossmann, 1908.) (B, C, D, E) Typical Effects of using the “Comforter” during Babyhood. Note projection of upper central teeth and space formed for itself by the '‘Comforter,” which gives rise to “ mouth-breathing ” and Adenoids. In D and E the narrowing of the jaws and crowding of the teeth is specially well seen. This gives rise to a weak, “rabbit-like ✓ expression. These illustra- ---* tions are taken from an article by Dr. Pedley, who gives the following account of the cases:—“Figs. B and C are from a boy ten years of age. Figs. D and E from his brother, aged 12. These are two English boys whom I have known from birth. They were bottle-fed after the first two or three months. The devoted parents, deaf to my entreaties and predictions, gave them the ‘dummies’ at an early period, and their use was continued until after the temporary teeth had all been cut. So confirmed did the habit become, that there was no peace in the home if the children were deprived of their ‘pacifiers.’ Subsequently these models were taken, and 1 found that my predictions that the permanent teeth would follow the lines of their protruding predecessors had been fulfilled. The parents, an elder son, and a younger daughter are free from any such deformity. Neither of the latter used the dummy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2993123x_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
