The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915: The Journal of the Minnesota State Medical Association and Official Organ of the North Dakota and South Dakota State Medical AssociationsVarious
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The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915: The Journal of the Minnesota State Medical Association and Official Organ of the North Dakota and South Dakota State Medical Associations
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Medicine -- Periodicals
I most heartily endorse what Dr. Huenekens said with reference to the
importance of encouraging in every way maternal nursing. Many a mother
gives up the attempt to nurse her baby on account of some soreness of
the nipples or because she has thought she had too little milk to be
of any use. Most of these cases may become, by the means recommended
by the reader, good milkers, and many a baby’s life may thus be saved.
Dr. E. K. Green: I would like to ask a question in regard to putting
babies on cow’s milk. I have adhered very closely to the principle
that modified cow’s milk is absolutely the best food for infants, if
it is impossible to get mother’s milk, but many times when I have had
the opportunity to follow these cases carefully I have had all sorts
of stomach and bowel disturbances on cow’s milk until someone would
suggest some other food, such as malted milk, or Mellin’s Food, or
even condensed milk, which seems to be the farthest from the natural
food, and then the babies would get along fairly well. Is this a
common experience, or is there something wrong with my method? We
have in our own home two children brought up on the bottle, one with
malted milk and the other with Mellin’s Food. In both these cases I
tried, not only once, but several times to use the modified cow’s
milk, but failed absolutely. I would like to know if you consider the
fault usually with the modified milk, or does the individual have
considerable to do with the case?
Dr. A. S. Fleming: I would like to ask if in the case of the healthy
infant the mother’s diet would modify the constituents of the milk
otherwise than in the facts stated. For instance, will it modify
the character of or the percentage of the sugar, or will any of the
aromatic constituents disturb the infant’s digestion?
Dr. M. J. Jensen: Dr. Huenekens dealt with the feeding of the healthy
infant only. I would like to ask if it is not true that nearly all
infants born alive, are born as healthy and sound as any infant
ever is, so far as the functions of its organs and tissues are
concerned? Nature frequently decides on producing premature births
and “still”-births, rather than running the risk of producing a sick
or sickly infant. In young infants it is very often difficult to
determine when to classify them as healthy or unhealthy, realizing the
conditions of their environment and usual care that is given in the
homes.
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