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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![To deduce as standard the average of one hundred analyses, from 1.30 to 7.61 per cent, fat, is an absurd fallacy. To mix good and poor, and call it best, is derisive mockery of Nature. There would be as much logic in selecting an average or medium wet-nurse instead of the best. Nature’s food when at her best; the vital functions of heat, respiration, and nervous energy; the compo- sition of the blood-forming, heat- and force-producing structures, are not alone unmistakable physiological indications, but are mandatory of abundant fat for a young child. Clinical results in more than one thousand cases of artificial feeding are conclusively confirmatory. The scientific basis of abundant fat is unimpeachable. Traditional consensus of opinion has no weight. The one invulnerable, unassailable criterion is the baby. Results, not theories, fix the standard. “Fat Indigestion.” Engendered by centrifugal cream, theorists educed a dogma. Centrifugal cream is conglomerate fat. It is as impossible as cheese. It cannot make the passage of the pylorus—never reaches the secretions for fat di- gestion. It is proteid-free. Vitality languishes. Eradi- cate by eliminating separator cream, and the milk of Jersey and Guernsey cows. Milk of average grade should be used. Proteid. Proteid is the growth-constituent. Woman’s and cow’s milk contain two proteids—albumin and casein. Albumin is not coagulated in the stomach. [4]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22480092_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
