Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr.

  • Louis Starr
Date:
1897
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Credit: Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr. 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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    drachms * of milk sugar to one pint of water. This makes an alkaline mixture with the percentage of its ingredients closely corresponding to human milk. When, in spite of careful preparation, all of these foods give rise to indigestion with fever, and the expulsion, by vomiting and diarrhoea, of hard curds from the stomach and intestines, the expedient of predigesting the milk must be resorted to. The best method is to peptonize the milk by pancreatin. f That manufactured under the name of extractum pancreatis, by Fairchild Brother & Foster, of New York, has proved most efficient in my hands. To accomplish this artificial digestion, put into a clean quart bottle five grains of extractum pancreatis, fifteen grains of bicarbonate of sodium, and four fluidounces of cool, filtered water; shake thoroughly together, and add a pint of fresh, cool milk. Place the bottle in water, not so hot but that the whole hand can be held in it for a minute with- out discomfort, and keep the bottle there for exactly thirty minutes. At the end of that time put the bottle on ice to check further digestion and to keep the milk from spoiling. The fluid obtained, while somewhat less white in color than milk, does not differ from it in taste; if, however, an acid be * About eighteen teaspoonfuls. f The subject of peptonization is further considered in Chapter IX.
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