Food for babes, or, Artificial human milk : and the manner of preparing it and administering it to young children / by Wm. Henry Cumming.

  • Cumming, William Henry.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Food for babes, or, Artificial human milk : and the manner of preparing it and administering it to young children / by Wm. Henry Cumming. 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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    PERFORMANCE OF THE VARIOUS FUNCTIONS OF the body. It is then too late to begin to at- tend to health when there is already another life depending on the mother. Years before this, a wise forethought should have seen this probable dependence, and made arrangements to meet it. A man having no visible means of supporting a family is deemed imprudent if he marry. A wise man will first provide the means of support, and then incur the obliga- tion. And should not a woman exercise the same forecast, or rather, should not her pa- rents do so ? Of what avail is it to the un- happy unborn children that the father is rich in money, if the mother be poor in blood ? Gold will not enrich the mother’s blood, and they must suffer from starvation. Is it not plain, therefore, that every young woman