Milk analysis and infant feeding : a practical treatise on the examination of human and cows' milk, cream, condensed milk, etc. : and directions as to the diet of young infants / by Arthur V. Meigs.

  • Meigs, Arthur V. (Arthur Vincent), 1850-1912.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Milk analysis and infant feeding : a practical treatise on the examination of human and cows' milk, cream, condensed milk, etc. : and directions as to the diet of young infants / by Arthur V. Meigs. 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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    until the desired amount only is taken. Another difficulty in making any change of food is that all persons are naturally impatient, and will notwait long enough to really ascertain whether what is being tried is suitable or not, but are disposed to change from one thing to another every few days, before any one of them has been given a fair trial. When an infant has been sick and has its digestion dis- ordered, it cannot show much improvement in less than several days or a week, no matter what food is given. In artificially feeding a child of nine months to a year old, the mixture recommended by Dr. J. Forsyth Meigs, of two tablespoonfuls of milk, cream, lime-water, and arrowroot-water (a teaspoon- ful of arrowroot to a pint of boiling water) each, and a little sugar, will often be found to suit well, or the mixture of milk and barley-water recom- mended by Dr. Jacobi {Hygiene, etc., by Buck, loc. cit). A sick child of this age should be fed about every two hours, and only a small quantity at a time should be given ; and the physician who shows the greatest fertility of resource in finding what the particular child can take and assimilate is the best for the case, for, as Dr. J. Forsyth Meigs {Sanitary Care and Treatment of Children, loc. cit., page 231) well says, children, like adults, are a law to them- selves, and he is the successful physician who dis- covers the law of each patient, and so is enabled to carry him through some special crisis of his life. It is a good plan, and one which should in all