Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children ; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr.

  • Starr, Louis, 1849-1925.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children ; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    according to the age. If the quantity of food con- sumed at the regular meals does not come up to the parent's standard of sufficiency, it does nothing but harm to resort to too dainty feeding and to an encouragement to eat between meals. There can be no question that a good appetite is a useful as well as a pleasant faculty for a child to possess, for there is no doubt that food eaten with relish is much better digested and therefore more serviceable in nutrition than that which is simply crowded into the stomach. Examples of Variations in Disease.—^Loss of appe- tite is encountered in febrile attacks and in acute disorders of the stomach. Inordinate appetite, on the contrary, is usually met with when too strong food has been administered. Here the increased hunger is due to the fact that the food administered, while it may be very rich in nutritive properties, is ill-adapted to the delicate digestive power of early life, and thus, by not being properly prepared for absorption, places the child in the anomalous position of starving in the midst of plenty. In more advanced children gluttony may depend upon gas- tric irritation, a condition which often leads older and presumably wiser heads to over-indulgence at table. 8. Eructation.—^Eructation or regurgitation is readily produced and of frequent occurrence in