Every mother's handbook : a guide to the management of her children from birth, through infancy, and childhood with instructions for preliminary treatment of accidents and illnesses / by Henry Arthur Allbutt.

  • Allbutt, Henry Arthur.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Every mother's handbook : a guide to the management of her children from birth, through infancy, and childhood with instructions for preliminary treatment of accidents and illnesses / by Henry Arthur Allbutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made from fine wlieateu flour combined with a certain proportion of Malt Extract. In the preparation of this food it should be mixed with hot milk, perfectly sterilized. It affords a highly nutritive food, easily digested by all children of over seven months of age. These three foods are so arranged that, if the child be fed by hand from its birth, a series of foods is obtainable which is scientifically adapted to its progressive digestive requirements. Messrs. Savory & Moore's Food for Infants I can recommend with confidence. It is thoroughly self- digesting and answers all the tests of a perfect food. Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. have also introduced a kind of powder prepared from pancreatic juice, called zymine. When a tube of this incorporated with a certain quantity of bi-carbonate of soda, is mixed with milk or milk and water in certain proportions, and then heated in a particular manner, the milk is peptonised, as it is called, and on the addition of a little sugar of milk, the mixture becomes identical with mother's milk through the action of the added powder on the caseine, which latter can then be easily digested by the feeblest infant. Let it be thoroughly borne in mind, that all kinds of food containing starch are totally unsuitable for an infant, until it begins to cut its teeth. If a child is hand-fed from birth, a selection should be made from the large and well-tried infant's dietary I have given. It should be remembered that sometimes one form of diet will .suit a particular infant better than another. That diet which is found to agree must be kept to, as a baby requires a simplicity in food, and in this respect difiers from an older child who requires a varied diet. In preparing a baby's diet great Preparing Food, care ought to be observed that the food is neither ill-made, lumpy, or burnt. There should be great cleanliness of all the cooking utensils as well as of the feeding bottle. A mother should never, whatever her rank of life, leave the preparation of her infant's food to others. .G