The care and feeding of children : a catechism for the use of mothers and children's nurses / by L. Emmett Holt.

  • Holt, L. Emmett (Luther Emmett), 1855-1924.
Date:
1914,©1912
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Credit: The care and feeding of children : a catechism for the use of mothers and children's nurses / by L. Emmett Holt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    If the patient is an infant, less milk should be used in the formula, the sugar omitted and the fat reduced (see page 93). In severe attacks with frequent foul stools, all food should be stopped for at least twelve hours and all milk for a longer time, and the bowels freely moved by a cathartic. Why is a cathartic necessary if the movements are already frequent f Such movements are nearly always due to an irritation in the bowel, set up by the fermenting food which has not been digested. The diarrhoea is l^ature's effort to get rid of the irritant. ISTothing to stop the movements should be given until the bowels have been thoroughly cleared by the treat- ment mentioned. BAD HABITS What are the most common had habits of young children? Sucking, nail-biting, dirt-eating, bed-wetting, and masturbation. What do children sucJc? Most frequently the thumbs or fingers, some- times the clothing or blanket, often the ^^pacifier or rubber nipple.