How to feed children : a manual for mothers, nurses and physicians / by Louise E. Hogan.

  • Hogan, Louise E. (Louise Eleanor), 1855-1929.
Date:
1899
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Credit: How to feed children : a manual for mothers, nurses and physicians / by Louise E. Hogan. 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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    done by Drs. Rotch, Jacobi, Holt, and many others, and by the establishment of milk laboratories where a child^s food may be called for by prescription and be prepared with the same care as is ordinarily sup- posed necessary for medicines only. A brief outline of the work possible to be done with the assistance of these laboratories is as follows : the cows supplying the milk receive the care required to provide as pure a milk as it is possible to procure; the milk is properly handled and cared for; the cream is separated from the milk by a sej^arator specially adapted to the purpose; other ingredients, such as cereal jellies, lime water, boiled water, etc., required for the modification of milk, are held in readiness, and .all the materials used are clean, sterile, and exact in theii percentages; the physician making use of labora- tory methods calls for certain percentages of foods re- quired in the especial case he has in charge; the milk modifier simply follows directions. Dr. Rotch says, An opportunity has for the first time in the history of medicine been presented for the physician to carry out his own methods, for the first time to be judged on a fair basis. In this way only can each clinical observer, when lacking in success, be sure that it is the fault of the food he is giving, and not because the food has varied from what he supposed he had ordered. Each day's feeding of each individual infant is re- corded. During the last three years Dr. Rotch has been able to test the value of this method by the feed- ing of nearly three thousand infants, and his data in the practical use of this system have been gathered by about four hundred physicians. He says he believes