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Identifier: diseasesofinfa00kopl (find matches)
Title: The diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Koplik, Henry, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: New York and Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Form of the Breasts of a Wet-nurse with Abundant Milk Of Good Quality. (After Schliehter ) FTG. 2
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Form of the Breasts of a Wet-nurse whose Milk isDeficient in Quantity and Quality. (After SchliohterO MATERNAL NURSING. 1 25 fering from a severe pneumonia with a high febrile curve cannot beall that is desired for the infant, and the process of nursing with theaccompanying physical and mental disturbance might react againstthe mother. Selection of a Wet-nurse.—It is not necessary that the wet-nurse should have been recently delivered. A newborn baby may begiven the breast of a nurse whose baby is from one to two months ofage. In fact, her milk is preferable to that of a nurse who has justbeen confined. For, apart from the uncertainty as to whether themilk will agree with the baby, the milk after a few weeks attains auniform composition, and is more likely to agree with the baby thanmilk from the breast of a woman recently confined. I prefer to placethe newborn infant on a breast at least three weeks old. The method of examining a wet-nurse as to her fitness beginswith ascertaining

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