Practical infant feeding ; feeding formulas.

  • Winters, Joseph Edcil, 1848-1922.
Date:
©[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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    Fifth Week: Upper 2^ ounces from each of three quart bottles of milk. (Use 6$ of the 7J ounces in preparing food.) Milk sugar, 6 teaspoons level full. Cold unboiled filtered water, 13J ounces. Lime water, 4 ounces. Eight bottles of 3 ounces.. Feed every 2§ hours. Formula No. 7 Sixth Week: Upper 2J ounces from each of three quart bottles of milk. (Use 7 of the 7J ounces in preparing food.) Milk sugar, 6 teaspoons level full. Cold unboiled filtered water, T3 ounces. Lime water, 4 ounces. Eight bottles of 3 ounces. Feed every 2 J hours. Formula No. 8 Seventh Week: Upper 2J ounces from each of three quart bottles of milk. Milk sugar, 6 teaspoons level full. Cold unboiled filtered water, 12 J ounces. Lime water, 4 ounces. Eight bottles of 3 ounces. Feed every i\ hours. When movements are loose, or green, double the lime water; make corresponding diminution of water. Formula No. 9 Eighth Week: Upper 3 ounces from each of three quart bottles of milk. (Use 8 of the 9 ounces in preparing food.) Milk sugar, 6 teaspoons level full. Cold unboiled filtered water, 12 ounces. Lime water, 4 ounces. Eight bottles of 3 ounces. Feed every 2\ hours. Formula No. 10 Ninth and Tenth Weeks: It is now requisite to increase protein and diminish fat. Upper 4 ounces from each of two quart bottles of milk. Milk sugar, 6 teaspoons level full. Cold unboiled filtered water, 12 ounces. Lime water, 4 ounces. Eight bottles of 3 ounces. Feed every 2 \ hours. [17]