The household medical adviser. A complete, popular-scientific work of reference ... compiled from the most recent recognised system of prevention and cure ... with over 320 illustrations, coloured plates and unfolding anatomical models / by H.Muller. M.D.

  • Müller, H.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The household medical adviser. A complete, popular-scientific work of reference ... compiled from the most recent recognised system of prevention and cure ... with over 320 illustrations, coloured plates and unfolding anatomical models / by H.Muller. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    anyone desires to know it, should be 95° Falirenlieit (35° centigrade). It is only right here to say that a number of eminent men have devoted their attention to the subject of the bringing up of children by hand, and have made very important experiments. Some have laboured to render cow's milk resemble human milk in its chemical constitution, others have studied how to preserve cow's milk so as to keep it perfectly free from infection. The best known form of preserved cow's milk is Swiss milk. This is sold in air-tight cases. It may be u.sed when fresh milk cannot be procured. But it does not agree with all children. The author has himself had experience of this. To parents who do not mind the expense, I can recommend the Soxleth apparatus for keeping milk fresh and free from infection. I have already said that this work is not written for the use of parents who possess ample incomes, and can easily procure for their children any sort of food they like. I am writing for people whose modest weekly wages place but small sums at their disposal; and my aim is that with the assistance of my book they may find themselves able to bring up their children whole and healthy. A mother may perhaps find that after she has bought for her baby all the milk that it requires, and has also purchased the milk-sugar, she has expended as much as she can well afibrd, even when the baby at first requires little milk, and a good deal of water is added to it. But at first she is able to follow the advice I have given. Only afterwards when the baby is ten or twelve weeks old, and requires more milk, this is a difficulty for her purse. She then thinks of doing like her neighbour, who has had two or three children, and has always mixed a little sodden bread or biscuit with their milk. But no mother should do this. The explanations which I am now about to give will show how dangerous it is to feed children too soon with any preparations made of meal. If it were possible to believe all the certificates signed by professional analysts, and all the testimonials and letters furnished by grateful parents, which as a rule accompany all kinds of artificial foods, the problem of how to feed young children would be immedi- ately solved. But too often these artificial productions are like the infallible remedies that are boldly advertised by quacks; and merely dear and useless. Most so-called foods are good only for the people who make money by selling them, and distinctly injurious to children (if given them when they are very young), because before they are six months old they have not sufficiently strong digestions to be able to digest foods containing starch. Besides, milk is already so rich in sugar, which makes othe.