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
Science
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
Dr. White brought up a very interesting point in regard to nervous
mothers. Their milk supply is subject to wide fluctuations; but,
if the breasts are well emptied at each nursing, they will secrete
sufficient milk. I will admit that these cases are difficult to
handle, for the infants usually have nervous diathesis, and do
not respond well to ordinary food. The one important point is to
completely empty the breasts; and that is the only measure we can take
to increase the supply of milk.
In reply to Dr. Aurand: I would feed a new-born infant 200 c.c. at a
feeding if the milk is sufficiently diluted. The liquid part of the
food passes very quickly into the duodenum, so that, before the infant
has finished feeding, a part of this quantity has already left the
stomach.
In conclusion: We have an opportunity in our infant-feeding to
practice the really scientific prophylactic medicine of the future.
We can do more in preventing infant-mortality by proper feeding than
by any other single measure; and we should encourage mothers to bring
their new-born infants to the physician for advice on feeding, and
to continue to consult him at longer or shorter intervals during the
whole of the first year of life.
THE INEBRIATE[2]
By George H. Freeman, M. D.
Superintendent of the Minnesota State Hospital for Inebriates
WILLMAR, MINNESOTA
[2] Read at the 46th annual meeting of the Minnesota State Medical
Association, St. Paul, October 1 and 2, 1914.
The Minnesota Legislature of 1907 passed a bill establishing the
Hospital Farm for Inebriates, placing its management under the State
Board of Control, and providing for its maintenance by setting aside
2 per cent of the saloon-license money for that purpose. Later, a law
was enacted providing for the issuance of certificates of indebtedness;
and active construction work soon commenced. The Hospital was opened
on Dec. 26, 1912, with Dr. Tomlinson, formerly Superintendent of the
St. Peter State Hospital, at its head. Through his untimely death, five
months later, Minnesota lost one of her most faithful officials. The
principles underlying the work at Willmar, are, with but slight change,
those that he so earnestly advocated.
This paper is based upon the study of the patients admitted from the
opening of the Hospital until the close of the biennial period, on July
31, 1914,--approximately eighteen months.
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