If the stomach reject this, farinaceous food boiled in water, and
mixed with a small quantity of milk, may be employed. Or weak mutton or
veal broth, or beef tea, clear and free from fat, and mixed with an
equal quantity of farinaceous food.
If this artificial diet is used before the sixth month, it must be
given through the sucking-bottle; after this period with a spoon: in
either case it must be previously passed through a sieve.
When the large or grinding teeth have appeared, the same food is still
to be continued, but need not any longer be expressed through the sieve.
Such is the plan of nursing to be followed by the mother until she
wean her infant altogether from the breast. The period when this ought
to take place, as also the manner of accomplishing it, are detailed
in the section on "Weaning."[FN#2]
[FN#2] See page 51.
The diet from weaning to the termination of infancy is pointed out
under "Artificial Feeding."[FN#3]
[FN#3] See page 34.
DEFICIENCY OF MILK.
If this deficiency exist from the earliest weeks after delivery, and
it is not quickly remedied by the means presently to be pointed out, a
wet-nurse must be obtained. It will be of no avail partially to nurse,
and partially to feed the infant at this period and under such
circumstances, for if it is not soon lost, it will only live for a few
months, or a year at most, and be an object of the greatest anxiety and
grief to its parent.
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