On the principles and exact conditions to be observed in the artificial feeding of infants : the properties of artificial foods : and the diseases which arise from faults of diet in early life : a series of lectures delivered in the post graduate course at St. Mary's Hospital, and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1887 / by W.B. Cheadle.

Date:
1892
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Credit: On the principles and exact conditions to be observed in the artificial feeding of infants : the properties of artificial foods : and the diseases which arise from faults of diet in early life : a series of lectures delivered in the post graduate course at St. Mary's Hospital, and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1887 / by W.B. Cheadle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    DIG induces scurvy in rickety children, 6; conditions of, essential to full nutrition, 6; vegetable, inefficient, 32, 33 Digestion, artificial, effects of, on various milks, 54 Diphtheria epidemic at Ealing from milk infection, immunity of households using boiled milk, 65 Diseases, infectious, germs of, destroyed by boiling, 65 Diseases of childhood, arising from errors in diet, 2, 124 ; two classes of—produced by irritation of alimentary canal, and arising from defective nutrition, 124; some of second class results of the first, 125 ; dyspepsia, 125-135 ; gastro- enteritis, 135-151 ; chronic form of, 151; thrush, 152; stomatitis, 153-155 ; atrophy, 155-159; anemia, 159; eruptions of the skin, 161, 162 ; rickets, 163 ; scurvy, 206 Dover's powder in treatment of gastro-enteritis, 149-151 Dyspepsia, 124 ; bottle-fed children the chief sufferers, 125, 130; suckled children suffer in a minor degree, 125 ; severe case caused by mother's milk, 126 ; boiled cow's milk substituted with success, 126; such extreme cases rare, 126 ; sometimes milk of wet-nurse a cause, 127 ; simple infantile, symptoms of, 127 ; appear- FAR ance of the child, 127, 128; some children suffer after every meal, 128 ; causes of, 128; how remedied, 129 ; treatment by drugs, 129 ; causes of human milk dis- agreeing, 130 ; the food to be substituted, 130; errors in diet causing the disease in hand- fed children, 130, 131 ; results all preventible, 132 ; precau- tions to be observed, 132-135 Eczema, 161 Entero-colitis, 139 Entire wheat-tlour, constitu- ents of, 79 ; process of pre- paration, 104 ; advantages of, 104; objections to its use, 104; unsuited for very young in- fants unless malted, 104, 105 Essence of beef. See Meat essence Farinaceous foods, alone, cause scurvy in rickety chil- dren, 6, 27 71. ; lack the anti- scorbutic element, 26, 88, 103, 106; preparations of —table of constituents, 78, 79; the animal element absent, 88, 96, 103, 106 ; deficient in fat, 88, 103, 106; insufficient as a diet, 88, 103 ; nutritive value of, 90 ; to be regarded as adjuncts only, 90, 105 ; valuable in proportion to