Diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, James Frederic, Sir, 1845-1916.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    half a pint of milk in the twenty-four hours with bread, and so forth, may have half a pint of milk sub- stituted for the bread, and the pint is to be day by day slowly increased till the proper quantity (two to three pints) is reached. Nor is it uncommon for such children to require an amount of dilution of the milk out of proportion to their age. Educated upon faulty principles as it has been, the stomach adheres to them with pertinacity, or becomes so irritable that even proper feeding does not seem to suit, and the child can only be saved by the most patient and attentive, even quick-witted, regulation, of its diet. Use what care we may, whenever a child has continuously wasted for some weeks, the prognosis must be doubtful until it ha s begun to increase in weight under the treatment adopted. Such cases, indeed, but for the objections, often in- superable, which have already been alluded to, should always be wet-nursed. When this is not possible, artificial human milk must be made or procured; or, failing this, some one of the other foods which have been mentioned in the previous chapter. Thus Biedert’s mixture of cream (one part), hot water (two parts), and sugar of milk (one-eighth part), is useful for such. So also is Cheadle’s formula of bread jelly (see Appendix); raw meat juice cream and sugar; whey, with cream added to it (a tablespoonful of cream to four tablespoonfuls of whey), will suit some; whey and barley-water, or barley-water and cream, others. Sometimes artificially digested milk, or peptonised milk as it is now called, may be necessary; sometimes a little beef-juice. Any one of these may in one case or another enable the child to turn the corner, and, when this is eflected, a more natural diet can be gradually resumed by the cautious addition of milk Flatulence and Colic are amongst the most fre- quent digestive disorders of infancy. They are so commonly associated that it is unnecessary to discuss