Principles and Practice of Infant Feeding (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Principles and Practice of Infant Feeding The dependence of the offspring upon its mother for food to supply its primitive needs can only be realized when we remember that one-fourth of the civilized race die during the first year of life, and that 60 per cent. of these deaths are due to nutritional disturbances, while a large portion of the other 40 per cent. are primarily dependent upon impairment of the infant's constitution by improper feeding. The mortality of the first year is nearly 60 times that of the fifteenth year, and it is not until we approach the 85th year that we meet with such a high percentage death-rate. The problem is not simply to save life during the perilous first year, but to adopt those means which shall tend to healthy growth and normal development. The child must be fed not only to avoid the immediate dangers of acute indigestion, diarrhea, and marasmus, but the more remote ones - rickets, scurvy, and general malnutrition. These latter three are the most important conditions that predispose to disease in early life. A growing child requires far more food than its weight would indicate. For, in the first place, its intake must exceed its expenditure, so that it may grow. The expenditure of an organism is pretty nearly in proportion, not to its mass, but to its surface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.