Simplified Infant Feeding

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Excerpt from Simplified Infant Feeding: With Seventy-Five Illustrative Cases Extensive experience in teaching post-graduate students the subject of infant feeding has shown the need of something concrete in the form of a book that will tell the busy practitioner just how to feed the different babies with whom he comes in contact day after day. There has been so much written upon the theory of infant feeding that the general practitioner is lost in its mazes, since the theories are constantly changing and eminent pediatricians differ so widely in their ideas upon the subject. That is the reason that "theory" has been left out of this book as much as it has been possible to do so, using facts and rules where they can be made to apply. The book that tells in detail just how to feed an infant is of much more assistance to a physician than one which deals in generalities. There seems to be much objection to the words "method" and "system" in describing infant feeding. It is very popular to say that "every case is a law unto itself." Such a statement tells nothing and is, moreover, not true. In every other branch of medicine, we have a definite method of procedure, and while it is true that there are individual peculiarities of infants, they may he classified to a certain extent, at least, as the author has undertaken to do in this work. Dr. Abraham Jacobi in taking issue with the statement that to speak of a "method" of infant feeding is taking a distinct step backward, said, "It is possible to be guided by the rule. Not every case needs to be fed from the individual standpoint from the beginning. 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.