The Natural and Artificial Methods of Feeding Infants and Young Children (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Natural and Artificial Methods of Feeding Infants and Young Children Several modifications in this work have become necessary since the first edition was published. During the interval there has been ample opportunity to investigate and estimate the advantages of the comparatively recent system of percentage feeding. The advances along this line have been chemical rather than clinical, and the attempt to treat the infant's stomach as a test-tube has not proved altogether successful. The American physicians, to whom must be given the credit of introducing this system, have elaborated it to such an extent that the complicated formulæ evolved are alarming, unwieldy and unnecessary. Further experience of the various processes of sterilisation have led to some modification of the views expressed as to its necessity and the effect on the nutritive value of the milk. The question of the transmission of tuberculosis by infected milk is more fully considered and, though in the main agreement is expressed with the views of Professor Koch, it is still regarded as by no means definitely settled. The chapter on the feeding and management of premature infants has been considerably amplified. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.