Domestic homoeopathy / By P. F. Curie ... With additions and improvements, by Gideon Humphrey.

  • Paul Curie
Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic homoeopathy / By P. F. Curie ... With additions and improvements, by Gideon Humphrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    lukewarm, may be substituted. The milk should be prepared each separate time it may be desirable to feed the infant, and the periods should be regulated with every possible care. During the first three or four months, the milk of the mother, or that of the cow, will in most instances suffice. Up to this period we should offer no additional nutriment. White bread, stale and grated, or biscuit- powder, boiled in milk, is now more appro- priate. It is at a subsequent period only that pap, made from flour or oatmeal, the fccula of the potato, meal, &c, and pre- pared with milk, is admissible. When the earlier teeth have protruded, we may in some measure vary the diet, but it should be exclusively of a vegetable character, alternated with the preparations adverted to above. In the earlier stage we must studiously avoid everything of a greasy nature. Milk and water should be the only beverage. Sweatmeats and bon-bons are at all times objectionable, and should consequent- ly be given with very great caution. Animal food should not enter into the diet until after the accession of the canine
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