Identifier: infantfeedingini00fisc (find matches)
Title: Infant-feeding in its relation to health and disease, by Louis Fischer; containing 54 illustrations, with 24 charts and tables, mostly original
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864-1945
Subjects: Infant Nutrition
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company, 1903
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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s should not be given. Of these castor-oil may serve as a type. The constipating effect followingthe use of castor-oil is so well known that this drug isindicated when we wish to cleanse the stomach and bowelsand remove stagnant food, as, for example: in fermenta-tive dyspepsia accompanied by diarrhoea. Thus, we notonly have an effective movement, but a constipating effectfollowing the same. The use of drastic cathartics—suchas scammony, elaterin, or podophyllin—should not bethought of in the treatment of infants and children.Very rarely do I use aloes, owing to its offensive taste.It is understood that calomel is only to be given whenwe wish to cleanse and produce an antiseptic effect inthe intestine; for the treatment of constipation per se,calomel is entirely out of place. Suppositories.—Among those most commonly usedare suppositories of the glycerin and gluten type. Glutensuppositories are made by the Health Food Company, ofNew York City. Most suppositories in the market are
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Fig. 46.—Rickets, showing Beaded Ribs. Breast-Fed Infantwith Poor Hygienic Conditions and Delicate Mother.(From Childrens Service of German Poliklinik.) CONSTIPATION. 283 entirely too large, and frequently must be cut into halvesand quarters. The suppository made by Parke, Davis &Co. has served the author very well. It should be dis-tinctly understood that a suppository is to be used in theevening for the same relief as we desire from the injectionor enema previously mentioned. Neither the suppositorynor the injection should be used with the idea of curinga constipation. MASSAGE. Continued kneading of the abdomen with the aid ofvaselin or oil will be found serviceable, and, if properlydone, will provoke an action of the bowel. Thus it isthat rubbing the abdomen with castor-oil has frequentlybeen recommended in the treatment of constipation; theeffect supposed to be due to the castor-oil is, in reality,due to the massage, and to nothing else. When massageis used, it should be con

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