Feeding in the first year of infancy / by Joseph E. Winters.

  • Winters, Joseph Edcil, 1848-1922.
Date:
[1903]
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Credit: Feeding in the first year of infancy / by Joseph E. Winters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    aggregate expression of the individual cells—a general disease of every part. Prolonged use of pasteurized milk is always injurious. Infant Foods. Of one thousand children fed on various infant foods, 430 wore die in the first year of life than of one thousand milk-fed children. Of those who survive, 400 will be in bad or indifferent health. Of those who live to the adult period, almost none are able for military service. The diminutive chest, the narrow contracted cranium, ultimate irreparable stig- mata of vicious feeding, adequately explain the low status of usefulness. Perfect feeding has as its greatest, grandest even- tuality, the maximum of lung (engine) power and of nerve (brain) force. There are more boys than girls born into the world. In consequence of the much higher death-rate in boys, there are more women than men. These facts are of national importance. They justify a physician in declining to participate in the feeding of a child where a mother, through specious, colorable advertisements, insists on the use of any proprietary infant food. A child fed on any one of the so-called infant foods, in a battle with acute disease, almost invariably succumbs. These foods are all advertised as substitutes for milk. Milk is secreted from the blood, and is closely allied to it in composition. A substitute is as impossible as artificial blood. Every ])roffered substitute for milk there is, has been, or will be, is baneful before the sixth month. 25 West Thirty-Seventh Street. [16]
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