The diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart.
- Sir James Goodhart, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![should be directed to the quality of the milk. It may l>e poor in quality or deticient in quantity, and the child ciies because its stomach is a wind-bag. Some- times it is over j)lentiful, and the child, taking it too greedily, is troubled in conse(]uence with colic. If it be necessary to make any addition to the breast milk, good cows’ milk* may be tried first, and it is to be diluted with an equal part of water oi- of lime-water, slightly sweetened with sugar of milk or lump sugar, six table.spoonfuls to be given at a meal.f I’lie breast may be given night and moi-ning, and the milk and lime-water in the meantime, or the two may be made to altei’imte. The milk may lie boiled in hot weather, oi- if it disagree. Rotch ju efers steaming the milk to boiling it. The milk (in the bottle) is put into a saucepan on a drainer over watei' and shut in. It is steamed for twenty minutes ; complete sterilisation of the milk is thus accomplished, and the constitution of the milk is not altered. But I never remember to have seen any of the ill I'esults that have been .attributed to the use of boileil milk. 1 believe that it is more uniformly .acceptable to the stomach (that is, digestible) than in the natui-al .state. To one or two of the meals in the day, sometimes to all of them, a good teaspoonful of <a-eam should be added. The mixtiu’e of milk and lime-water is not by any means always suitable. In some cases, whei'e the milk is still too much for the child, and is most of it vomited in large curds, it may be further diluted. In others, where it appears to lead to flatulence and abdominal pain, mixture with thin bailey-water will be found to agree better. Barley-water has also the advaiitage of acting as a gentle laxative—a very valuable pi'Operty, inasmuch as m.anv children fed upon cows’ milk and water, or cows’ milk and lime-water, are much troubled with ♦ Cows' milk should be faintR’ acid or ueiitral; of sp. gr. 1026 to 1030; and should contain an amount of cre.im which is variously stated by different writers to be from 5 to 10, or even 14 per cent. t See p. 31 for more precise details.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24990449_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
