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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    cent fat, etc. This is the top-milk of most use in infant feeding. When and how should top-milJc he removed? If milk fresh from the cow, or before the cream has risen, is put into bottles and rapidly cooled, the top-milk may be removed in as short a time as four hours. In the case of bottled milk it makes little difference if it stands a longer time, even until the next day. The best means of removing it is by a small cream-dipper^ holding one ounce; although it may be taken off by a spoon or siphon. It should not be poured off. Does the upper half always contain 7-per-cent fatf 1^0; this varies with the length of time the milk has stood, and still more with the richness of the milk used. The richness of the milk depends on several fac tors: whether it is from a herd or a single cow, also on the breed of the cow and on the manner of feed- ing. In good average milk the cream forms about one-sixth of the whole amount after the milk has stood four or ^Ye hours. ^ Obtained from any of the Walker-Gordon milk laboratories, from James Dougherty, No. 411 West 59th Street, New York, and from many druggists. Price, 20 cents.