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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![with the milk. Tlie food may l)e varied l)y, or alter- nate with, Chapman’s entire wlieateu flour. This form is more suitable than white bakers’ Hour, becau.se it contains the pollard or outer part of thej^rain of wheat, and this is rich in nitrogenous mattei’, fat, and salts, and also in the cerealine, which exercises a diastatic action upon the starch, turning it into sugar. The finest dressed white flour contains less nitrogen and more starch, and is therefore less wliolesome, foi- reasons previously stated. 'J’he entire flour needs pi’o- longed boiling for its preparation in order to break u]> its starch and convert it into dextrine or grape sugar. This may be done by jmtting it into a basin, tying it over with a cloth, and then immersing the whole in a saucepan of boiling water for some hours ; or, by tying it up tightly in a pudding-cloth and l^oiling-. Eustace iSmith orders a pound to be heated thus for ten hours, and then removed, the outer soft part to be cut away, and the inner hard part grated and used as meal—a tea.spoonful at a time, well mixed with cold milk, to which a (juarter of a pint of hot milk is added Ijefore serving. Should the child have already t.aken to artificial feeding, according to the rules laid down, all that will be neces.sary at seven or eight months will be to in- crease the quantity of milk and food which has already by e.xperience been found to suit the particular case. After nine months old, furthei’ variet}' may be in- troduced. A cup of beef-tea ; or mutton, chicken, or veal broth ; or the yelk of an egg should be given occasionally. All these? things are, howe-ver, only ac- cessories to the main article of diet—ix., good milk, of which a healthy child will genei’ally consume a. pint and a half or two joints daily. At this time' of life there should lx? five meids during the day, tlius : At eight A.^i., a teacupful of warm milk thickened with a, teaspoonful of Nestle’s food, or (uitin? flour. At eleven a.m., a bre?akfast-cupful of warm milk, or the yelk of an egg well beaten u[) in a teucupful of milk.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24990462_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
