Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... THAT LrvEn. No. THAT Dmn. 1000-1500 grammes. 40 12 28 or 70 per cent. 1501-2000 131 96 35 or 26.7 2001-25000 " 112 101 11 or 9.8 " ' Before the introduction of the machine, infants died at the rate of 66 per cent.; since, the average proportion is 36.6 per cent. The heated cradle has also been used with success in the treatment of sclerema, oedema and cyanosis, attacking the newly born. From the very first day an attempt must be made to put these feeble infants to the breast; and if they be too weak to suck, the milk may be squeezed into the mouth or first into a warm spoon and then given to the child. The mother s or nurse s milk, without dilution or addition, is the best food, though if this cannot be obtained, asses milk may be used. This must be mixed with equal quantities of warmed sugar and water--3 parts to 100. When the cow s milk is employed, the mixture should be one part to three of the same sugared water. M. Tanner recommends the cow s milk to be prepared thus: The mixture of milk and sweetened water is placed in an air-tight pot, and this is placed in boiling water for half an hour. It is given to the child from a small spoon. When the infant is very small, six to eight grammes (f 5ij) are enough for a meal; larger babies require from ten to fifteen grammes (3iiss-5iiiss). There should be at least twelve meals every twenty-four hours. It often happens that the babe will drink badly and throw up half the liquid given. Under this deficient feeding the little sufferer gets rapidly worse, loses weight, and frequently has diarrhoea. In these cases gavage is resorted to. The apparatus used is quite simple, being nothing more than a urethral catheter of...