The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development, by Henry Dwight Chapin.
- Chapin, Henry Dwight, 1857-1942.
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development, by Henry Dwight Chapin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![Do not use one cow's milk. Get a quart bottle of good fresh mixed milk of a herd of cows from the dairyman, or if bottled milk cannot be obtained, place a quart of milk in a clean quart jar and set this on ice or in cold water until the cream has risen and appears as a layer at the top of the jar. This will take from four to si.x hours. When the cream has risen dip off the top . . . ounces; that is, all the cream and enough of the remaining milk to make . . . ounces, into a clean pitcher or bowl. Take from the rci^m.\hQ. pitcher or bozvl. . . ounces and add . . . ounces of [water, barley, oatmeal or wheat flour gruel] and . . . ounces of sugar. (A level tablespoonful is half an ounce.) Divide this into . . . feedings . . . ounces each, in separate nursing bottles, and plug the bottles with tightly twisted clean cotton. Do not use corks. Keep the food on ice or in as cool a place as possible. Feed . . . ounces every . . . hours. Warm the food by placing the bottle in warm wateryV/.s-z' before feeding. Do not keep food warm to avoid the trouble of heating it. The food may spoil. After the cotton stopper has been removed and the nipple adjusted, the food should drop slowly when the bottle is held upside down. Offer cool boiled water between feedings if the child appears hungry. If the food is not well digested, add one to two tea- spoonfuls of lime water to each bottle. In warm weather heat the food, as soon as made, for twenty minutes in a double boiler and cool before putting into the feeding bottles, or buy a pasteur- izer and pasteurize the food. Keep all utensils scrupulously clean and the nipples lying in a solution of borax when not in use. Suggestive Table of Feedings. Age Remove the top nine ounces from a quart of bottled milk into a pitcher or bowl. Of this milk in the pitcher or bowl use four ounces with thirteen ounces of water, or digested gruel, and one level tablespoonful of sugar. If there is difficulty in digestion, one to J add one ounce of lime water to the mixture. four weeks. Divide into nine feedings of two ounces each in separate nursing bottles and feed every tw'O hours during the day and twice at night. As the infant grows older, one or two ounces more of the nine- l ounce top milk may be added to the mixture.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21226179_0282.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
