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Title: Infant-feeding in its relation to health and disease, by Louis Fischer; containing 54 illustrations, with 24 charts and tables, mostly original
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864-1945
Subjects: Infant Nutrition
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company, 1903
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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e cane-sugar instead ofmilk-sugar for bottle-fed babies. Having regulated the diet and excluded fresh bread,cakes, pies, pastries, macaroni, and other floury foods, weshould insist, in children over two years of age, on eating-all green vegetables with the exception of cabbage, beans,turnips, potatoes, and corn. Thus, celery, spinach, greenpeas, asparagus, and cauliflower are recommended. EXERCISE. What massage is for a young infant exercise is foran older child. Thus, it is apparent that atonic condi-tions can best be relieved by combining the dietetic andmedicinal treatment with out-of-door exercise. Childrenshould be permitted to romp about and walk and playout of doors, but not to a point approaching fatigue.Older children will find bicycle exercise or horseback-riding decidedly beneficial. It is important, however, toregulate the amount of such exercise, and thus it is ap-parent that it is the physicians duty to tell the motheror nurse just how long a child should be permitted to
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Fie-. 47.—Showing Rachitic Beaded Ribs on Left Side of Thorax. CONSTIPATION. 285 exercise. It would seem that one-half hour twice a dayis ample to arrive at beneficial results. Overindulgencein such sports will frequently result in rupture and pro-duce heart-strain. In cardiac lesions, in asthmatic con-ditions, if children suffer with whooping-cough, and intuberculous conditions such exercises must not be allowed. HYGIENIC TREATMENT. We should insist on proper ventilation of a childssleeping-room at night, and it is, therefore, advised thatthe window be left open a few inches. This is not fraughtwith danger; on the contrary, it is healthful and bene-ficial to allow children to play in the open air all day,and naturally to shut them up in poorly ventilated apart-ments at night is simply inviting both throat and lungtrouble. In addition to proper ventilation, bathing incool water or lukewarm water, followed by an abdominalspray or a douche directed against the stomach and bow-els, wil

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