The diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart.

  • Sir James Goodhart, 1st Baronet
Date:
1891
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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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    take milk, others resent farinaceous puddings, and so on. But it will generally be found that, where this is so, the early education of the stomach has been at fault, and patient correction will bring it round. Mothers and nurses will say a child cannot take this and that, because they have administered the thing improperly. But if the medical man insists on a return to such diet under strictly detailed conditions—nay, .some- times it may be necessaiy to make it one’s business to see a child at its meals and what it is eating— no difficulty whatevei' will be experienced in its iligestion. One or two points concerning the admini.stration of food to infants may be alludeil to here, as akin to the question of diet, and upon which the success of all diets depends. In the first place, it is nece.s.sary to insist upon tlie observation of the most .scrupulous cleanline.ss. No one would believe, without actual expeiience, how difficult it is to keep a .feeding-bottle and its tube sweet. But so difficult is it, even with the greatest care and the clo.sest supervision, that it is advisable to simplify the apparatus as much as possible. Foi' this reason I discai'd all bottles except the old-fashioned slippei- form, of which improvements have of late been introduced, which are fi’ee fi'om any disadvantage.* With a bottle of this kind, the meal being over, the cap and nipple ai'e I'emoved, the bottle well washed in w.irm water, and the three parts ai'e allowed to stand in a weak .solution of .salicylate of soda gr. iv ad 3] of water (Lewis Marshall), or in water to which a good pinch of borax has been added. Bottles with tubes must have these replaced liy new ones directly there is anything uiqileasant about them when placed clo.se to the nose—■ - T'lie “Trojiioal” lioatsliape Feeder with iiiekol screw cap to allow of cleauiiig—mamifactiu-ed by 'I’humpsoLi, Millard and U(i., (hirtaiu Load, E.C. and Jtaw's flat feeding-bottle, with screw glass and stopper.
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