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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![As soon as the mother has received proper attention put the child to the breast. A child should nurse every three hours the first day, every two hours the second— ten times in twenty-four hours. Water may be given'from a s])oon twice the first day; It is not necessary the second day. Water must not be given after the secretion is established. Much water, even from a spoon, prevents vigorous numing. Vigorous nursing stimulates secretion. Refusal to nurse, and non-secretion, are inevitable evil fruits of water. Unnecessary weaning has become well-nigh universal through this error. With strict observance of these precautions every mother can nurse during the indispensable colostrum period. Woman’s and cow’s milk can be made practically identical after the second week. The third week of lactation albumin decreases, casein increases. After the fifteenth day there is no irremediable difference between woman’s and cow’s milk. Alleged inscrutable differences are pure hypothesis, and emanate from those handicapped by lack of ability to modify to meet the individual indication. The substitute must be identical in composition with a superior quality of woman’s milk, and must present the same physical behavior. Utilization of proteid is dependent upon its physical behavior. [81](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22480092_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
