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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![Casein is coagulated into tough, leathery masses. The non-coagulated, non-coagulable albumin readily passes through the small, narrow pylorus to the intes- tine, where absorption is immediate.* Casein masses cannot make the passage of the pylorus. Colostrum Paramount. The first and second days after childbirth the secretion of the breasts contain 8.6 per cent, albumin; from the third to the seventh day 3.4 per cent., from the eighth to the fourteenth day 2.5 per cent. Contemplate Nature, wise, and wondrous, and prac- tical. A child increases in length most rapidly the first week of life. Nature’s bounteous growth-constituent is a physiological necessity. The appalling mortality in children artificially fed occurs chiefly in first weeks. Mortality in second month is only a small fraction of that in first month. Ample heat- and growth-constituents in first weeks would efface the black mortality column of artificial feeding. High proteid, non-coagulable, absorbable without di- gestive effort, is impossible of duplication. To eliminate a discrediting mortality peak, the in- imitable secretion of a fortnight must be utilized. This IS FEASIBLE. Water forestalls lactation! Never give water from a bottle to a newborn child. Refusal to nurse is certain to ensue. * The infant pylorus is so narrow that it admits only the pas- sage of a small probe and is surrounded by a protuberant, firm, muscular ring—erroneously denominated pyloric stenosis. [5]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22480092_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
