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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. SIMPLE ATROPHY FROM INSUFFICIENT NOURISHMENT. Simple Atrophy From Insufficient Nourishment.?An exceedingly common condition?Causes?Insufficient supply of food?Varieties of breast milk?Effect of preponderance of butter in the milk?Test of a good nurse?Unsuitable food ?Dependence of nutrition upon power of digestion?Over-feeding?Varieties of food required for perfect nutrition?Differences between woman's and cow's milk?Cow's milk cannot always be digested. Symptoms.?Two classes, according to cause?Food suitable but insufficient?Food unsuitable?Wasting?Constipation?Cause of inactivity of bowels?Flatulence ?Colic?Ravenous appetite?Eruptions on skin, strophulus and urticaria? Thrush, its importance in prognosis?Inward fits?Attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea?Convulsions?Aphthae?Danger of secondary diseases?Mode of death. Treatment.?Suckling?By mother?By nurse?Rules for choosing nurse?Directions for efficient suckling?Advantages of putting child early to breast after birth? Times of suckling?Artificial feeding?Directions?Feeding bottle?Importance of cleanliness?Different infants' foods?Liebig's food?Cow's milk may disagree ?Pancreatized milk?Weaning?Usual time?Must sometimes be anticipated? Method of weaning?Reason why a child may refuse the breast?Diet after weaning?General management of infants?Treatment of?Constipation?Flatulence and colic?Convulsions?Thrush?Aphthae?Diarrhoea and vomiting. Imperfect nutrition constitutes the commonest form of disease, and furnishes the most frequent cause of death in infants. Many thousand children die yearly in London alone for the simple reason that they are fed systematically and persistently upon food which they cannot digest. And so long as the children of the poor are allowed to leave their schools latterly uninformed as...

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