The infant : nutrition and management / by Eric Pritchard.

  • Pritchard, Eric, 1864-1943
Date:
1921
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Credit: The infant : nutrition and management / by Eric Pritchard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Those who read this little book in the expectation of finding a full description of the latest methods of feeding infants will be disappointed, for according to the views herein set forth each case must be re¬ garded as an individual problem which has to be solved by the practical application of general prin¬ ciples. I believe one of the chief reasons why fixed methods of feeding babies so often fail is because the manner in which a baby will respond to any particular line of treatment depends more on its past experiences than on any other factor, and each infant has its own past. This work is not intended to take the place of more ambitious textbooks or handbooks on the subject of infant management ; it contains views which, in many cases, are still regarded as un¬ orthodox. Tradition and authority have, however, so narrowly circumscribed our methods in the past, and one book has so closely followed on the lines dictated by those which have preceded it, that a little breaking away from precedent, even if it is not in all cases an improvement, may perhaps have advantages. p p Harley Street, W., August} 1914.
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