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
In regard to the sterilization or boiling of cow’s milk: I do not
think that children fed on pasteurized or boiled milk develop as well
as those who are fed upon raw milk as it comes from the cow. Dr.
Palmer, of Chicago, fed seven hundred children on raw milk during the
midsummer months and only lost three of the number. The miserable,
atrophied children began to live the moment treatment with raw milk
was begun. If the process of milking was carried out in a sanitary
manner, or by means of a suction apparatus, then cooled, and placed
in sterilized bottles, I believe we would prohibit the development
of bacteria, and save the food which exerts so marked a protective
influence upon the infant’s organs.
When raw milk free of all objections cannot be obtained, it is
sometimes advisable to use another milk product namely, buttermilk.
Dr. S. Marx White: There is just one point I have been thinking about
in the discussion on the question of infant-feeding, and that is
whether Dr. Huenekens really means us to believe that in practically
all cases the mother can furnish sufficient milk for the child. He
passed that over in saying that in nine out of ten cases the mother
gave as a reason for discontinuing the milk that the milk gave out. Is
it not true that in a good many instances the mother needs treatment
quite as much as the infant? I do not mean medical treatment, but
management. Is it not true that an overworked, tired, nervous,
worrying mother is unable to supply sufficient milk for the child? It
has been my impression from a very limited experience in this field,
that the mental and nervous and physical state of the mother is a
very large factor in the production of the milk. When upset and under
deleterious influences she is really not a proper producer for the
child; and the management of the mother is often quite as important a
factor as any other.
Dr. W. H. Aurand: In such cases as Dr. White just mentioned, what are
we going to do to increase the supply of milk? Also, I would like to
ask Dr. Huenekens if he means to feed to the new-born baby 200 c.c. at
a feeding?
Dr. Huenekens (closing): As regards lime-water: I cannot recommend its
use. Wherever there is a specific demand for calcium, as in premature
infants or spasmophilic cases; or where it may help to produce a firm
stool; or, as in diarrheal disturbances, it may be of great value, but
in the normal healthy infant it is of no benefit whatever.
Dr. Bryant mentioned the giving of meat in exudative diathesis: His
statement that such infants can probably have meat once a day at
fifteen months, and show normal stools, is beside the question. A
normal macroscopic stool does not necessarily mean that the meat has
been digested. However, I am now working on this problem, that is, to
determine whether an early solid diet produces an earlier digestion of
meat.
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