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American Medical Association, 1915 - 19 pages
 

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Page vii - ... feedings. The amount of milk should be increased by one-half ounce every week. The milk should be increased only if the child is hungry and digesting his food well. It should not be increased unless he is hungry, nor if he is suffering from indigestion even though he seems hungry. At...
Page vii - Beginning on the third day, the average baby should be given 3 ounces of milk daily, diluted with 7 ounces of water. To this should be added 1 tablespoonful of limewater and 2 level teaspoonfuls of sugar. This should be given in seven feedings. At...
Page vii - At 3 months, sometimes earlier, a weak barley water may be used in the place of plain water ; it is made of one-half level tablespoonful of barley flour to...
Page ix - ... foods should not be given during the first year. At 12 months he may take his milk undiluted and strained cereal may be given twice a day. During the second year the child should have four meals a day. Hours: 6 am, 10 am, 2 pm, 6 pm Nothing but water should be allowed between his meals. At 12 months the baby should be weaned from the bottle and taught to drink milk from a cup. He may then have cereals twice a day, which should be thoroughly cooked, and for the first two or three months they should...
Page vii - ... milk daily, which should be diluted with 10 ounces of water. To this should be added 2 even tablespoonfuls of sugar and 2 ounces of limewater. This should be given in five feedings. The sugar added may be milk sugar, or if this can not be obtained, cane (granulated) sugar or maltose (malt sugar). At first plain water should be used to dilute the milk. At...
Page vii - At 3 months the average child requires 16 ounces of milk daily, which should be diluted with 16 ounces of water. To this should be added 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar and 2 ounces of limewater. This should be given in six feedings. The milk should be increased by one-half ounce every six days. The water should be reduced by one-half ounce about every two weeks. At...
Page viii - Unless a child has loose bowels he should be given from 1 to 3 tablespoonfuls of strained fruit juice once a day after he is 7 or 8 months old. After he is 9 months old he may be given squeezed beef juice, beef tea, or plain mutton or chicken broth once a day. When he is 10 months old he may have part of a soft egg, a small piece of crisp toast or zwieback, or a crust of bread to chew immediately after his feeding. Other solid foods should not be given during the first year. At 12 months he may take...
Page vii - Place two pails in the sawdust, one inside the other, and fill the space between the outer pail and the box with sawdust. The nursing bottles filled with milk are placed in the inner pail and the pail is surrounded with cracked ice. The inner pail should have a tin cover. Nail several thicknesses of newspapers on the under surface of the cover of the box. This ice box should be kept covered and in a shady, cool place. Care of nursing bottles. — The bottles should be cleaned immediately...
Page vii - At 6 months the barley flour may be increased to 1$ even tablespoonfuls cooked in the 12 ounces of water. At 9 months the barley flour may be increased to 3 level tablespoonfuls cooked in the 8 ounces of water.
Page iv - There should be a warm, soft blanket to receive him. The body should be oiled, not bathed. The eyes should be carefully cleansed with a saturated solution of boric acid, and into each eye the doctor or nurse should put two or three drops of a 2 per cent, solution of nitrate of silver to prevent sore eyes and possibly blindness.

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