Infant feeding and its influence on life, or, The causes and prevention of infant mortalityChurchill, 1876 - 540 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 188 - Part of the boiled leaves arc then thinly spread over the breast, and allowed to remain until all moisture has been removed from them by evaporation, and probably, in some measure, by absorption. This operation of fomenting with the decoction and applying the leaves, is repeated at short intervals, until the milk flows upon suction by the child, which it usually does in the course of a few hours. On occasions where milk is required to be produced in the breasts of women who have not given birth to...
الصفحة 347 - Inquiry being directed to tho probable source of the affection, it was ascertained that on December 21, four days before the patient was taken ill, two pigs and an ox had been slaughtered in the establishment of her master. Some smoked ham and sausage, prepared from the meat of one of the pigs, were fortunately obtained, and on examination proved to be full of trichinae.
الصفحة 189 - ... over her thighs and generative organs, cloths being carefully tucked around her, so as to prevent the escape of the steam. In this position she remains for ten or twelve minutes, or until the decoction cooling a little, she is enabled to bathe the parts with it, which she does for fifteen or twenty minutes more. The breasts are then similarly bathed and gently rubbed with the hands, and the leaves are afterwards applied to them in the manner described.
الصفحة 313 - ... being transmitted even on a large scale from district to district, in particular articles of food, and especially in the article of milk. In 1870 Dr. Ballard, now of this department, but who at that time was working with high character as officer of health for the parish of Islington, was able to show that an outbreak of enteric fever which had attacked, in ten weeks...
الصفحة 383 - Half an ounce of wheaten flour, and an equal quantity of malt flour, seven grains and a quarter of bicarbonate of potash, and one ounce of water, are to be well mixed ; five ounces of cow's milk are then to be added, and the whole put on a gentle fire; when the mixture begins to thicken it is removed from the fire, stirred during five minutes, heated and stirred again till it becomes quite fluid, and finally made to boil. After the separation of the bran by a sieve, it is ready for use. By boiling...
الصفحة 151 - The secretion of Milk proceeds best in a tranquil state of mind, and with a cheerful temper ; then the milk is regularly abundant, and agrees well with the child. On the contrary, a fretful temper lessens the quantity of milk, makes it thin and serous, and causes it to disturb the child's bowels, producing intestinal fever and much griping.
الصفحة 378 - Moreover, its nutritive matter is to its calorifiant matter in the proportion of 1 to 2J, milk being in that of 1 to 2. No wonder, therefore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy and marked debility have completely recovered. I have given it with the very greatest advantage in such cases, and, so far as I may judge from my own experience, I should conclude that practice fully carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, would have led us to anticipate. Lentils...
الصفحة 494 - And among the rich and poor the larger the number of children the more has the mother's constitutional strength been taxed, and the more likely is she to have lost in general power.
الصفحة 358 - Half a pint of new milk is set aside for the cream to separate, which latter is removed ; and to the blue milk half a teaspoonful of prepared rennet is added ; this is placed over the fire and heated until the curd has separated, when it is broken up with a spoon, and the whey poured off. In winter, three drachms of powdered sugar of milk are added to this warm whey; and the whole is mixed with half a pint of new milk. In summer, three drachms and a half of sugar of milk are added, arid with the...
الصفحة 374 - ... bread as a diet. Children that have been liable to convulsive attacks from an irritable condition of the alimentary canal and nervous system, have been perfectly free from them immediately the new bread was substituted for fermented bread. And cases are now numerous that have been communicated to me by medical men of position, in which certain distressing forms of dyspepsia, which had remained intractable under every kind of treatment, have yielded as if by magic almost immediately after adopting...