A hand-book of nursing for family and general use.

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[1878], ©1878
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    the degree of dilution gradually diminishing with the increasing age of the child. In the first week, the proportion should be one part of pure milk to two parts of water, and every week the water should be lessened in quantity, until in the second month the proportion should be half milk and half water. In the third month it should be two parts of milk to one of water; in the fourth month, three parts of milk to one of water, and then the water gradually diminished until after the fifth month, when milk may be given in full strength. The milk should not be previously skimmed, and to each glassful of the mixed milk and water a teaspoon of white sugar, or better, of sugar of milk, should be added. What the condition of the cow's milk should be. 2. Great importance attaches to the quality of the milk. If possible, the milk from a single young, grass-ted, well-stabled cow should be used; the milk must be per- fectly fresh,—it is best when used warm from the cow,— and the vessel into which it is received must be scrupu- lously clean, and both milk and vessel kept in a dry, cool, uncontaminating place. Unless these suggestions are properly carried out the child will quickly suffer from wind, diarrhoea, or constipation, and will cease to thrive. What should be done if the ?nilk disagrees with the child. If such accident occur, a few drops of some aromatic tincture added to the glass of milk will often suffice to restore the health j if not, the physician should be sent for at once, in order that with his more perfect knowl- edge and keener observation he may ferret out the cause of the trouble.