Diet after weaning ; a manual for the care and feeding of children between the ages of one and two years.

  • Mellin's Food Company, Boston.
Date:
1907
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Diet after weaning ; a manual for the care and feeding of children between the ages of one and two years. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    MMMMMi DIET AFTER WEANING by a more or less serious de- rangement of digestion with consequent impairment of the child's vitality. Anything which is found to disagree should be discontinued at once and not given again for some time. Carefully avoid weakening the digestion by overfeeding. All starchy foods must be thoroughly cooked. Between eighteen and twenty-four months of age, the child will have cut his first set of double teeth and may then have small quan- tities of meat — rare roast beef, rare beefsteak, rare roast mutton or mutton chop,or the white meat The Diet Meats l3 of chicken, all finely minced or scraped. Although there should be some variety in the food, care must be taken that it is not too great, for infants do best on Give water between meals only; ice water should never be given. The bowels should be normal and show no signs of indigestion. Never give a baby Should be Varied but Plain a plain diet.