On milk and milk food : diet in health and disease : with remarks on emaciation, dyspepsia, and the preservation of health : the nutrition, care and management of infants / by W.C. Cockson.

  • Cockson, W. C.
Date:
1877
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    much more easy of digestion, and obviates one of the great drawbacks of other kinds of foodrrepared for children. The powder is used m.xed w.th about ten times I' ' t of water, or less if a thicker food be required. It lorins a palatable, easily > and verv nutritious food. It is suited for adults in all cases ot irritability oi the d.gcstive organs. Many physicians on the .^ontincnt who have had large experience of its effects, speak most favourably of it as food for infants, and undoubtedly for those a few months old it is most excellent. MYRA'S JOURNAL,—August 1st, 1876. Some friends of mine have found so much benefit in their nursery by the use of Dr NestKi's milk powder, that I feel many will be glad to know of it. It is a substitute for mother's milk which appears to answer perfectly. Many a sweet mfant has been lost for want of an easily-digested substitute for nature's fountain, and by over-nutrition or semi-starvation in consequence of the irregular condition of the milk supplied. r Dr. Nestl6's manufactory is at Vevey, Switzerland. One ounce ot milR powder to ten ounces of water gives milk of an agreeable taste a:.d good com- position. The infant gets it in its bottle, always fresh, and at the temperature of the body (gH F.). This mixture is sufticient for an infant of one to two months. Children of three to four months should take two ounces of powder to ten ounces of water, and children of five to six months, this quantity twice a day ; older ones three times a dav. Of course there exists no definite fixed quantity for all cases; as to the pr m and repetition of these quantities one must be guided by the appetite ai. ive powers. At Vevey, mothers often combine the use of the milk powder while nursing, if they have not enough milk, and are obliged to devote a great part of the day to their occupations. No fear or anxiety need disturb the mother who can prepare the powder as required for her darling ; indeed, the pretty pair who have been entirely fed upon Dr. Nestlc's food do such credit to the doctor that we call them the Nestlings. BOSTON (U.S.) MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL,— November, 1876. During last summer the attention of a number of physicians in this neighbour- hood was called to a food for babies, little known here, Nestle's Lacteous Farina, made in Vevev, Switzerland, the use of which has some decided advantages. In one respect the food has a practical superiority over all the numerous foods that are in common use here, namely, it comes in a dry form, and yet only water, no milk, is required in preparing it for use. It is well known that bottle-feeding is made difficult, almost more than in any other way. by the changes that milk undergoes either at the hands of the milkman, or under atmospheric influences, or from want of care between the time when it leaves the cow and the time when the last of the evening's or morning's supply is given to the baby. In preparing the food for use, one part is mixed with from six to ten parts of cold water, which is then boiled while stirring. This cooking may be entrusted with comparative safety to unskilled hands,—a very important matter,—for the food has no tendency to ball or cake, .is farinaceous substances are apt to do, and it is not likely to burnr It is not even necessary to begin by making a smooth mixture with a portion of the water. Ehrendorfer. assistant in Monti's poliklrnik in Vienna, reports that this food was given to twenty insufficiently nourished and forty sick children from five to twenty months old. Of these, fifty-one continued to take it until they were well, while with nine it was discontinued either because they did not like it or because they did not improve. Medicine was also given in these fifty-one cases, but the good results were attributed largely to the food. Ehrendorfer concludes that the food is especially valuable in making up for a deficient supply of mother s milk, and that it is also often serviceable in cases of diarrhoeal diseases (the less so the younger the child), especially in diarrhoea consequent on weaning, when the most striking results appear to have been attained. It is supplied in compact form, is easily cooked, is comparatively safe from tho accidents from which milk often suffers, especially in the city; that most babiet like it, and that it generally does not disturb the digestion and is nutritious.
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