Practical infant feeding ; feeding formulas.

  • Winters, Joseph Edcil, 1848-1922.
Date:
©[1909?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical infant feeding ; feeding formulas. 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.

    13/28 (page 11)
    Definite knowledge of the ratio of proteid to fat in different cream layers is essential for feeding a young infant, when casein must be low, fat high. In upper J ounce, i to 8; upper 8 ounces, i to 4J. A young infant cannot be successfully fed on modification of upper eight ounces—excess of casein, or deficiency 0] fat, is unavoidable, physical behavior insurmountable. Here has been a universal pitfall. Utilizable growth-constituent jor a young infant is in top half-ounce of gravity cream only. Pasteurization of Milk In every tissue of the body, minerals and proteid are in organic union. Dissolve this union, the tissue is dead. Proteid is the vital constituent of every cell. Cell nuclei are rich in iron, magnesia, phosphorus, lime, potash, soda. No formation of cells for fresh growth can occur unless these minerals are in organic union with proteid. Minerals to be assimilated must be in organic union with proteid. Animals for whom milk is a sufficient food, die of inanition when the minerals are extracted. The result is the same with the minerals restored to the proteid, fat, and milk sugar, the organic union being broken up. Organic union of mineral and proteid in milk is light and easily dissolved. Heat dissolves this union. Pasteurization dissolves or loosens this union. Milk in which the organic union of mineral and proteid has been dissolved will not sustain life; milk in which this union is partially dissolved, half sustains life. Cells in every part of the body are half-living, half dead. This is the primary and fundamental cause of the excessive death-rate in children. Susceptibility to disease, lost recuperability, are attributable to the need of minerals and proteid in organic union, for formation of cells, for renovation of tissue. Pasteurized milk induces susceptibility, impairs resistance, increases death-rate. A rosy, plump, lusty child was never seen where pasteurized milk had been the only food for a prolonged period. That contaminated, germ-infected milk can be rendered clean, pure, suitable, safe food for infants is unworthy of consideration. Pasteurization does not render dirty milk clean, stale milk fresh, nor germs harmless. Pasteurization is a recourse to palm upon a credulous public milk unfit jor food. Physiological chemistry—immutable and fixed as the rising of the sun —interdicts pasteurized milk. Experimentation concurs. Experience demonstrates pasteurized milk iniquitous. Pasteurized milk was practically universal in tenement babies summer, 1908. June 1st to July 18th, mortality from diarrhea in infants under one year was 47 per cent, higher than corresponding period 1907. In thirteen summer weeks, from all causes, the deaths in infants under one year were 5,662—cells half-living, half-dead, invite disaster. The [«]