Handbook of midwifery for midwives : from the official handbook of midwifery for Prussian midwives, published by direction of the Minister for Spiritual, Educational, and Medical Affairs / by J.E. Burton.

  • Prussia.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Handbook of midwifery for midwives : from the official handbook of midwifery for Prussian midwives, published by direction of the Minister for Spiritual, Educational, and Medical Affairs / by J.E. Burton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Upon the whole the milk met with in towns may he considered to be rather poor. Such milk will be suffi- ciently diluted for the child’s use if it is mixed with an equal quantity of water. It will now, however, contain too small a quantity both of cream and sugar, and to make up this deficiency, sugar should be added as directed, and the cream from an extra quart of milk per day.] The best sugar for sweetening is sugar of milk, of which as much as will lie on the point of a knife is added to a cup of milk. The food thus prepared should be given out of a feeding-bottle with an ivory, calf’s, or black (unvulcanized) india-rubber nipple. [The old-fashioned bottle is by far the best. So long as the child has to be taken up and held in the arms to be fed, it is not likely to be overfed) whilst those that suck a flexible tube as they are lying down almost invariably are.] The food should not be so hot that the bottle containing it cannot be borne against the eye. It is well to wrap the bottle in a piece of flannel or woollen cloth, to prevent its cooling too rapidly. The food should be freshly prepared every feeding-time, and what is left ought to be emptied out. After being used, the bottle and nipple should always be washed out and left to soak for some time in clean w^ater. When brought up in this manner, as well as when brought up at the breast, the child should be early accustomed to regular feed- ing. It is also well to give such a child a daily bath of lukewarm water. If the child cannot bear the food, a medical man should be called in; and until his arrival, if other fresh milk cannot be procured, a little condensed milk or even chicken broth may be given.