Infant diet : a lecture / by A. Jacobi. Delivered May 8, 1873. Revised, enlarged, and adapted to popular use by Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D.

  • Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Infant diet : a lecture / by A. Jacobi. Delivered May 8, 1873. Revised, enlarged, and adapted to popular use by Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D. 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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    nor be able to deduce from them all the practical rules that are necessary for guidance in health, and still less in disease. But, like the intelligent passenger on a vessel, who learns how to read the chart and to foresee the directions and incidents of the voyage, even while submitting to the control of the captain, so the mother may learn the general plan of her child's life, its future course, and the accidents that beset it, and, in regard to the details to which her attention is called, learn much, if not all, of their scientific relations. For these mean simply the exact relations of things to each other, of effects to causes, of appearances to underlying conditions, . of actions to organs, of vital phenomena to the physio- logical laws of the body in which they occur. This little book is not a mother's manual, nor a treatise intended to exhaust the vast topic of the devel- opment of infant life. To understand only a small part of what is known about that, the mother must consult, not one little volume, but many big books. Of all the questions that might be asked in relation to the child, we only propose to answer one—namely, What shall it eat ? But this is fundamental to all others, as is to the farmer the nature of the soil whence his seed may obtain the materials for its growth. The roots of the