Certain rules and regulations must be adopted to effect
weaning safely, the details of which are given elsewhere.[FN#36]
[FN#36] See page 52.
OVERFEEDING, AND THE USE OF IMPROPER AND UNWHOLESOME FOOD.--These
causes are more productive of disorder of the stomach and bowels at the
time of weaning than any yet referred to.
If too large a quantity of food is given at each meal, or the meals
are too frequently repeated, in both instances the stomach will become
oppressed, wearied, and deranged; part of the food, perhaps, thrown up
by vomiting, whilst the remainder, not having undergone the digestive
process, will pass on into the bowels, irritate its delicate lining
membrane, and produce flatulence, with griping, purging, and perhaps
convulsions.
Then, again, improper and unsuitable food will be followed by
precisely the same effects; and unless a judicious alteration be
quickly made, remedies will not only have no influence over the
disease, but the cause being continued, the disease will become most
seriously aggravated.
It is, therefore, of the first importance to the well-doing of the
child, that at this period, when the mother is about to substitute an
artificial food for that of her own breast, she should first ascertain
what kind of food suits the child best, and then the precise quantity
which nature demands.
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