Feeding in the first year of infancy / by Joseph E. Winters.
- Winters, Joseph Edcil, 1848-1922.
- Date:
- [1903]
Licence: In copyright
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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![What is prerequisite in a food for a newborn child, just separated from its mother’s bloodstream? It must sui)i)ly heat, maintain respiration and ner- vous energy, and furnish constituents for growth—build- ing material. Over the whole round world it is universally conceded that the ideal food for these grand purposes contains 4 to 6 per cent, fat, 7 per cent, milk sugar, 1 per cent, proteid, minerals in organic union with proteid—the milk of a healthy woman. With these constituents in these proportions we see the perfect child. If there is paucity of these constituents the food is inferior. The trend to cereal and fat curtailment is erratic, unphysiological, unscientific, weighted with disease and death. Composition of Barley Flour Fat 0.97. Composition of Barley Water Fat 0.02. Fatal paucity of prerequisites. Barley is characterized by destitution of constituents for heat, respiration, and nervous energy. Conception of it for these sublime purposes is eminent of puerility. Unsuccessful modifiers embrace it as a shield. Per- force a coterie of vociferous heralds. The net result is that young infants are daily present- ed at the dispensaries with deeply sunken intercostal spaces, protuberant bones; the subcutaneous fat de- posited in intra-uterine life teetotally burned in main- tenance of heat, respiration, and nervous energy. Ignominious exemplification of theory in 'practice. Acquiescence in its use is most preposterous, most deplorable. [2]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22480092_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
