Feeding in the first year of infancy / by Joseph E. Winters.

  • Winters, Joseph Edcil, 1848-1922.
Date:
[1903]
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Credit: Feeding in the first year of infancy / by Joseph E. Winters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Copyright, by Joseph E. Winters. FEEDING IN THE FIRST YEAR OF INFANCY. By JOSEPH E,/WINTERS, M.D. NEW YORK. PROFESSOR OF THE DISEASES OP CHILDREN, CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE (iN NEW YORK CITY). Feeding Formulas. An experienced practical worker in pediatrics never encounters a difficulty in infant-feeding that is not sur- mountable. Apparent insurmountables constantly con- front the general practitioner, for the reason that feeding in early infancy has been medleyized by inves- tigation reports, the mathematician, and the specula- tist. Investigation reports usually prove alluring to the practitioner. In practice they constantly discredit him. A scientific luminary would allow fecal discharges, not composition of food, to determine the mode of feed- ing. The presence or absence of starch in feces which have sojourned an uncertain period in the midst of fermenting, decomposing material has no more bearing on infant- feeding than the presence or absence of gold in seawater. It behooves the bedside physician to examine broadly, deeply, critically, analytically, a propounded anomaly in medical practice before its adoption in experimenta- tion on his patient. [1]