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.

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    genei'ally able to digest good milk well, and they have also airived at a time of life at which, once in the day, they may take good gravy and custard pudding, broccoli or cauliliower. Older children, of eighteen months or moi'c, may have underdone pounded meat witli well-cooked cauliliower and gravy. Eustace Smith gi\ es a diet wliich cannot l)e impi'oved. It is as follows:—Breakfast: a breakfast-cupful of milk, with one or two teas[)Oonfids of Mellin’s food dissolved ill it. At eleven a.m. : a breakfast-cupful of milk, alkalinised by fifteen drops of the saccharated .solution of lime. Oinner at two: a good talilespoonful of well-]iounded mutton-chop, with gravy and a little crumbled stale bread ; oi' a good tablespoonful of the flower of broccoli, well stewed with gravy until quite tender, thin bread and butter, and toast-water to drink. Tea at six : as at breakfast, or a lightly boiled yolk of an egg, if no meat has been given. But thei'C are many rickety children who at two }ears of age have the development of a child of twelve months; [lerha[isthere is bad diarrluea, vomit- ing. etc. etc. In such cases the diet must be care- fully adjusted to their condition. The amount of milk will [lerhajis have to be reduced, very likely in great measure i-e[ilaced by the cream and whey pre- viously recommended on pp. 31, 43. In such cases a.s these, however, much leliance may be placed upon beef juice as an additional article of diet. This is made as for the preliminary stage of beef-tea:—A ([uarter of a pound of meat is to be finely minced and .soaked in a ([uarter of a [lint of cold watei' for an hour; it is then strained and well pressed through muslin, and the resulting fluid is given, either cold or ^varm, by the bottle or s[ioon. Should any repugnance to it be manifested, it may be generally disguised in an e<[ual quantity of milk, or it may be sweetened w ith a tea.spoonful of malt exti'act, oi' given in acoiai cocoa, it sliould be fi'eshly made each day, the quarter of a [lint being distiibuted over the day.
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