The infant's digestive apparatus is, in fact, designed
to digest milk, and to digest nothing else, but when the teeth
are cut farinaceous matter of a more or less solid character
should be gradually mixed with the milk. Almost all the
illnesses of infants under twelve months of age are caused by
some gross impropriety of diet, or otherwise, on the part of the
mother, for which the child suffers through the medium of the
milk, or they are caused by feeding the child with improper
artificial food. Thick sop, and many other articles often given
as food are as indigestible to an infant of three months old as
beefsteaks would be to a horse; and, until the child has cut its
teeth, it should have nothing but food resembling the mother's
milk as closely as possible.
The infant's digestive apparatus is, in fact, designed
to digest milk, and to digest nothing else, but when the teeth
are cut farinaceous matter of a more or less solid character
should be gradually mixed with the milk. Almost all the
illnesses of infants under twelve months of age are caused by
some gross impropriety of diet, or otherwise, on the part of the
mother, for which the child suffers through the medium of the
milk, or they are caused by feeding the child with improper
artificial food. Thick sop, and many other articles often given
as food are as indigestible to an infant of three months old as
beefsteaks would be to a horse; and, until the child has cut its
teeth, it should have nothing but food resembling the mother's
milk as closely as possible.