Diseases incident to the first dentition / by James W. White.

  • White, James William, 1826-1891.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Diseases incident to the first dentition / by James W. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    Dirt '■'>'.— From si>vi'ii(li or riixlitli luoiith (when I wo, foiir, or nix teeth aro throuirli) to oiu> your, /?■('<; vica/tf. (5 OK 7 A. M.—A cup of jxor milk (if (liu;('st('(l), witli two tenspoonfuls of tariiia, oatmoal, whcatcn i:;rits, rice or rizriia, l)arlcy Hour. It is well to alliM-uato rico with oatuical or farina. 11 A.M.—Milk with hreadcrumbs, milk crackiM-s, or rusk. Twice a week the vclk of one CLru:, beaten with teacuj) of milk, may be given with the bread and milk, etc., juice of raw beef, heated a little, or beef-tea, chicken or mut- ton broth, in small quantity. At about ten months, a piece of rare beef or chicken bone to suck. 2 p. M.—One cup of milk, with lime-water, if necessary. 5 p. M. —8amc as at 7 a. m. 11 p. M.—If needed, same as at 2 p. M. A healthy cliild, between ten and tw^elve months old, requires a pint and a lialf to one quart of milk in twenty-four hours. Dirt 4.—From one year to eighteen months. 7 A. M.—Same as Diet 3, at 7 a. m., or with a rusk, slice of bread, well soaked in milk. 11 a.m.—A drink of milk, slice of bread and butter, rusk, or crackers. I P. M.—A cu]) of beef-tea or piece of rare beef, chicken or mutton broth, Avith bread, rusk, or milk crackers; a mealy ])otato, moistened with beef gravy; one or two tablespoonfuls of light pudding, rice, rizena, corn starch, or sago, made with milk. 6 P. M.—Same as 7 A. M. II P. M.—A drink of milk, if required. A healthy child, between one year and eighteen months, will take two or three pints of milk in twenty-four hours. Diet 5.—From eighteen months to two years. 7 A. M.—Cup of milk, rusk, bread and butter; occasionally yelk of one 11 A.M.—A cup of milk or rice and milk,with ripe fruit occasionally. 1 P. M.—Rare beef, broths, soups not too rich, baked potatoes, with gi-avy, milk, or toast-water, or simply water as drink; small quantity of custard or other light pudding. 6 P. M.—Bread and butter, rice (or rizena) and milk, occasionally stewed fruit. Between two and three years, same diet may be continued, substituting 11 A. M. and 1 p. M. meals for one at 12 M. Meat can be given every day; vegetables, except cabbage, turnips, and parsneps; morning and evening, princii)ally milk. The following schedule of the diet of a liand-fed infant from birth upward' will serve as a suggestive and useful guide: Diet during the First Week. Cream, f^iij; Sugar of milk, gr. xv ; AVhey, f.^ss, fJ5ij; Water, f.^ss, f3ij. This portion to be given every two hours from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., and in some instances once or twice during the night. ^Diseases of the Dirjcslive Onjum in luj'unry (ind Childhood, by Louis Starr, M. D.