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Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches) Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog) Subjects: Children Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.) Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: andthe Princess of Bulgaria took a wet-nurse from Iglau for lier last ciiild.Not only Iglau, but the whole region, is renowned for its excellent qualityof wet-nurses. The r)oliemian and ^Inhreu nurses have very good uuunnuv.They seem to love the children entrusted to them. In AuuM-iea the wet-nurses are uneducated servants. 106 NUTRITION, While it is a rule that a wet-nurse should be taken for an infant of thesame age as that of her own, frequently wet-nursing of an infant at birthby a wet-nurse whose baby is three months old has not been followed by anybad results. In Xew York we are at a decided disadvantage regarding wet-nurses.As no licensed agents exist, a few people procure wet-nurses from superin-tendents and house physicians of hospitals where obstetrical work is done. The importance of properly supervising wet-nurses in the light of thedanger of transmitting syphilis needs no further comment. The HealthDepartment in every city should grant the use of their laboratories for a Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 36.—Pear-shaped Breasts, Best Adapted for Nursing. (Original.) careful blood examination of each and every wet-nurse. It is as importantto prevent the transmission of syphilis to a child as it is to give an im-munizing dose of antitoxin to prevent diphtheria. Being positive that the blood of the wet-nurse is not diseased, ournext examination should be of the milk. A wet-nurse whose milk containscolostrum corpuscles should be rejected until the colostrum corpuscles haA^edisappeared. The chemical examination of the milk should be made toascertain the percentage of fat. Milk that contains more than 2 per cent,of fat should not be used. If the wet-nurse selected has an exceptionallylarge quantity of milk and is otherwise healthy, then the milk, if it containstoo much fat, may be pumped off with a breast-pump and diluted withwater, and so fed from a nursing bottle. It is a pity that we have no municipal control for what the writerconsiders one of the most valuable adjuncts to our in

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