Rules for the general management of infants / recommended by the Obstetrical Society of London.

  • Obstetrical Society of London.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rules for the general management of infants / recommended by the Obstetrical Society of London. 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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    [7] When the child is about ten months old, it may have one meal a day of broth or beef tea, with crumb of bread soaked in it, or it may have the yolk of an egg lightly boiled. When it is about a year and a half old it may have one meal a day of finely-minced meat; but even then milk should form a large proportion of its diet. THE FOOD OF GROWN-UP PEOPLE BAD FOR CHILDREN. Meat, potatoes, and food such as grown-up people eat, are often given to young infants. This kind of food, and all stimulants, are entirely unsuitable, and are common causes of diarrhoea and other troubles. HAND FEEDING. If the infant must be brought up by hand, the chief rule to remember is, that the food should resemble, as ■closely as possible, the milk provided for it by nature. Milk, and milk only, should be used for this purpose. Asses' or goats' milk is best; but cows' milk will in general do sufficiently well. For the first month equal parts of pure fresh milk and hot water, the whole being slightly sweetened; for the second and third months, two parts of milk and one part of water; and after the third month pure milk should be used. It may be found necessary to alter the proportions ' of milk and water here indicated. A table-spoonful of lime-water may often, with great advantage, be added to each bottle of milk, instead of an I equal quantity of warm water.