Practical infant feeding ; feeding formulas.

  • Winters, Joseph Edcil, 1848-1922.
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©[1909?]
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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.

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    zealot of pasteurization is as arbitrary to the law of nature, i.e., the law of the Creator, as the anarchist to the law of government.* Infant Foods An infant is not endowed with ability to digest vegetable. With amaz- ing disregard of this physiological fact, these foods, regardless of name, are entirely vegetable—from barley or other grain. Corn meal, oat meal, hominy, and potato would be no more incongruous. Granting assimilability of proprietary foods, concedes incorrectness of physiology. Experimentation confutes this, validates, verifies physiology. Of one thousand children fed on various infant foods, 7S0 more die in first year, than of one thousand breast-fed children. Of those who survive, nearly all will be in bad health at end of year. Majority of these die later. Decisive, irrefragable attestation of the correctness of physiology; incon- trovertible proof of the worthlessness of every proprietary food for a young infant. Of those who survive, it is the milk in the mixture which nourishes, not the proprietary preparation. Rare exceptions of supported nutrition are of those rarely endowed to assimilate an unnatural and abnormal quantity of milk, impaired by these accessions. Infant physiology, physiological chemistry, experimentation, establish that the giving of any food other than modified raw milk to an infant under six months, is perfidious. In Germany, when an infant under one year dies, the law requires the mode of feeding to be stated on the certificate of death. In Berlin, mortality of artificially nourished infants is twenty times as great as that of breast-fed infants. In Munich, mortality of breast-fed babies amounted to 11 per cent., of bottle babies 89 per cent. The disparity between natural and artificial feeding, arises from not conforming unto the order of nature. Woman's milk is the type-food. The substitute must contain the same constituents, in the same proportions, as in a superior quality of this prototype; when acidulated, at feeding tem- perature, it must present the same physical behavior; organic integrity of mineral and proteid must be unimpaired; it must contain nothing not contained in this perfect model. Barley, dextrinized cereal, malt soup, all adventitious and foreign accessions to modified milk, enhance mortality. The towering mortality column of artificial feeding is erected by these; impairment of milk by proprietary preparations; pasteurization, and such alien, incongruous and extraneous foods, as fat-free milk and buttermilk. When the order of nature changes; when the functions of heat, respira- * Economy to the poor of pasteurized milk: Five six-ounce tubes sell for 5 cents. An eight-cent quart bottle of milk will make at least three quarts of the diluted mixt- ure 'n these tubes—or more than 15 cents per quart for whole milk. There is no rental; no delivery. Pasteurized milk is neither charity nor philanthropy. [12]