The Nutrition of the Infant (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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IN his endeavour to make his practice as exact and scientific as possible, the author was at one time greatly discouraged by the fact that infant feeding apparently presented almost insuperable obstacles to its rational management in health, and to exact diagnosis and treat ment in the presence of disorder. While this applied, to some extent, to the management of breast feeding, it applied with greater force to substitute feeding.

In hospital and private practice he was only too familiar with the various attempts to meet the requirements, and had frequent opportunities of testing the results of. Prao tically every method at all commonly used.

But there were many failures, and, what was even more unsatisfactory, the successes were achieved by means so essentially empirical that they taught no lesson for the future. It must be confessed that others were satisfied where the author was greatly discontent. For it was said to be unreasonable to expect that artificial feeding should be so conducted that its results could be at all comparable with those of breast feeding. This attitude seemed to be the more serious in view of the number of women unable or unwilling to nurse their infants.

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