The student's guide to diseases of children.
- Sir James Goodhart, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The student's guide to diseases of children. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![abdominal pain. In such cases tlie milk must be diluted till it forms only a third part of the whole, equal parts of milk, water, and lime-water being given, sweetened as before with milk sugar. But thei’e are many cases where this fails to secure health and comfort. The child is griped with pain after each meal, and remains thin, while the motions are still pale and lumpy, often containing undigested curd. It is probable that, under these circumstances, the curd of the cows’ milk, which is larger and firmer than that of the mother’s milk, is the element at fault, and barley-water will often remedy this. By mixing it with the milk the casein curdles in a. state of more minute subdivision, and more closely resembles the thin, small tlocculent curd of human milk. Meigs and Pepper advise a, little arrowroot in addition. Thin gelatine jelly, a tea- spoonful to half a pint of milk and water, may bo mixed with the milk instead of the bailey-water, for the same purpose. Home of the Infant’s Poods may be used for the same purpose also. T’hese are for the most part combinations of farinaceous food in which the starch has been converted into dextrine and grape sugar by the mode of preparation. In this state they are easy of digestion, and may therefoi'e, with due care, be used to thicken the milk. Starch which has under- gone no such changes is unsuitable, because in the first three months of life the salivary and pancreatic juices are wanting, and consec[uently there are no facilities for its digestion. Mellin’s food, Liebig’s infant food,* Nestlc’s food. Savory A IMooi'o’s food, and others are all useful in certain cases. Sometimes one will suit, sometimes another. '^I’ho proper one for a par- ticular case must always be somewhat a matter of ex- periment. Ateas[)Oonfulisaddedtocach meal. Nestre’s food requires boiling. Condensed milk of some good brand is often useful at this ])eriod of life, and many infants thrive well upon it. It possesses some advan- ♦ See footnote, j>. 28.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24990462_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
