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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    How is the acidity of cow's milh overcome ? Usually by the addition of lime-water; one ounce to twenty ounces of food is generally required. If there is a tendency to constipation the milk of magnesia (Phillips's) may be used; from one half to one teaspoonful being added to each twenty ounces of food. How is the sugar hest increased? By adding milk sugar to the food; one ounce by measure to each twenty ounces of food will give the proper quantity for the first three or four months. This will make the proportion about the same as in mother's milk. How should the sugar he prepared? Simply dissolved in boiled water; if the solution is not clear, or if there is a deposit after standing, it should be filtered by pouring through a layer of absorbent cotton, half an inch thick, which is placed in an ordinary funnel. Will not cane (granulated) sugar answer as well? ]^ot as a rule; however, there are many infants who get on very well when cane sugar is used. It has the advantage of being much cheaper. A good grade of milk sugar is somewhat expensive, costing from twenty-five to sixty cents a pound, and cheap samples are apt to contain impurities. Moreover,