Practical observations on the diet of infancy and childhood / by Thomas Herbert Barker.

  • Barker, T. Herbert (Thomas Herbert), 1814-1865.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Practical observations on the diet of infancy and childhood / by Thomas Herbert Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE DIET OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. I. We can hardly overrate the importance of regimen and diet in infancy. The happiness of fu^ ture life depends on our care. Here a basis may be laid for a long life of health and vigour; or here that weakness and irritability of constitution may beinduced, which will be the cause of disease and suffering. And so closely are the mind and body united, that even the moral character of the future man may be affected by errors in the diet, or the general management of infancy and childhood. The curvature of the pliant sapling may end in the con- firmed deformity of the full-grown tree. But as the subject of this chapter is so highly important and interesting, it is pleasant to add that it is also clear. Our duty is to interpret nature, and her reply to the question, What is the proper