On the principles and exact conditions to be observed in the artificial feeding of infants : the properties of artificial foods : and the diseases which arise from faults of diet in early life : a series of lectures delivered in the post graduate course at St. Mary's Hospital, and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1887 / by W.B. Cheadle.

Date:
1892
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Credit: On the principles and exact conditions to be observed in the artificial feeding of infants : the properties of artificial foods : and the diseases which arise from faults of diet in early life : a series of lectures delivered in the post graduate course at St. Mary's Hospital, and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1887 / by W.B. Cheadle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RECOVERY ON ANTI-SCORBUTIC DIET The only treatment ordered was, as before, dietetic. No medicine was given, but raw meat juice, cream, potato gruel. But the case proved a little difficult. The stomach had become so sensitive that the child was frequently sick after the richer food, and it was found necessary to reduce the quan- tity of cream, and give half a bottle of food only every two hours. Yet, in spite of this drawback, the limbs were already less tender, the gums less swollen, there were no fresh bruises, and the urine was only slightly discoloured with blood. In a fortnight all trace of blood and albumen had disappeared from the urine. The meat juice and cream were increased gradually, and milk added. In less than a month the child was well and playing about. In this case, again, the food deficiency was clearly sufficient to cause scurvy. Condensed milk, as I told you before, is of slight, or even doubtful, anti-scorbutic virtue. One-third of a teaspoonful in each bottle would be utterly inadequate. The rapid recovery on anti-scorbutic diet, again, was a convincing proof of the nature of the malady.