The natural and artificial methods of feeding infants and young children / by Edmund Cautley.

  • Cautley, Edmund, 1864-1944.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The natural and artificial methods of feeding infants and young children / by Edmund Cautley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    make a thorough clinical examination, and the child is useless for the demonstration of physical signs to the beginner. In addition to this the physical signs in a child, with disease of the lungs for instance, are often anomalous and the student is better occupied in acquiring simpler and more straightforward know- ledge. But all these students go out into the world, when qualified as medical men, prepared to treat every ailment of the infant which comes under their notice. In the Out-Patient Department of a Children's Hospital it is especially common to meet with cases of dyspepsia, colic, diarrhoea, and often profound marasmus mainly, if not entirely, dependent on the wide-spread ignorance of this subject. Often it is the mother who is solely to blame for the condition of her child, or some kind friend, such as the landlady or the woman next door, who has taken upon herself the responsibility of recommending the addition of a patent food to the diet of the infant, even as early as the age of a few days, at a time indeed when it is quite incapable of digesting such a food. The medical literature on the subject is peculiarly copious. Except in works devoted to the Diseases of Children, or monographs on special branches of these diseases, such as Louis Starr's valuable book on the Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Children, or in the scattered articles appearing from time to time in the medical journals, it is much too often published in a form devised partly for the medical practitioner, partly for the use of the nursing mother. Much of such work is spoilt by imperfections in the