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.

  • Cheadle, Walter B. (Walter Butler), 1835-1910.
Date:
1894
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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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    in the most extreme cases, but they are not essential. I have never seen a child develop rickets in the most unhealthy surroundings if properly fed and free from food disorder. THE ONLY CONSTANT FACTOR IS THE FOOD FACTOR The only constant factor, alzvays present, is the fooa factor. Sometimes it is the only factor. The chief cause, this fault of diet, is the commonest, the most potent, and dominant of all. This much is, I think, well established : the vast majority of cases of rickets arise directly in connection with food. THE QUALITY RATHER THAN THE QUANTITY OF THE FOOD AT FAULT The first fact which comes out with regard to the relation of food to the production of rickets is, that it is a question of quality rather than quantity—of special fault of nutrition, not a general fault of nutri- tion. A child may be in the last stage of atrophy, and yet not rachitic. It may be fat and gross, and yet extremely rachitic.