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Infant feeding and its influence on life, or the causes and prevention of infant mortality.

DOI: 10.1037/12747-000

Publisher: William Wood & Co - American Psychological Association

May 9, 2011

1 - 10 of 27 Chapters

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General division of causes of mortality and viability--Classes of disease--General comparison of these, showing the great influence of diseases which may be produced by injudicious food and defective hygiene.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 5 –7

In the present inquiry I propose in a first part to consider the causes of mortality and viability of infants. In a second, the subject of wet nursing in its physiological as well as social relations are discussed. In a third, the author discusses the general principles and practice of...
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Conditions which favor mortality: First, nature of food, particularly--Want of breast-milk--Results obtained in London--Foundling and Parisian hospitals--Late diminution of mortality in France--Evidence from facts and figures that other causes are in operation--Calculation on Registrar-General's return for England and London.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 8 –12

It is argued that the conditions which favor mortality among infants may be considered under three headings: (1) those which depend on the nature of the supplied food; (2) those which depend on defective hygienic regimen and (3) those which depend on the physical and physiological nature of the...
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Mortality dependent on nature of food, continued.--Hand-feeding as practised by the mass of population.--Conclusions in favor of breast-milk from Drs. Merei and Whitehead's tables--From Brighton cases.--Breast-milk from a mother generally agrees better than from a stranger--Chateauneuf's experience--Foundling hospital.--Private cases.--A mother's breast-milk, however, occasionally disagrees.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 13 –18

It cannot be denied, however, in the second place, that hand-fed children are much more likely not only to be weakly and imperfectly developed, but also that the chance of life is much smaller for them than for children who are suckled by a healthy mother. But here we must remark, the argument...
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Mortality in connection with defective hygiene.--Influence of hospital atmosphere and close habitations.--Remarkable exception of Ireland.--Greater mortality in towns for infants.--England--Ireland--French foundlings.--Fearful effects of exposure.--France and England.--Influence of removal.--Of abuse of recumbent position.--Violent deaths among infants.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 19 –28

This chapter explores infant mortality due to issues such as defective hygiene from environmental conditions. Examples of mortality in hospitals and foundling institutions in Ireland, France, and England are presented. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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On some peculiar physiological relations which influence the mortality of infants.--Mortality greater in early periods both for Foundlings and children in a general population.--Season.--Influence varies with locality in public institutions as compared with private residences.--The mortality is greater for male children than for females.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 29 –38

This chapter provides statistical data on infant mortality rates among foundling children and those in the general population. Specifically, geographic areas, infant age, and gender are compared. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Conditions which favor viability.--Tables of viability up to five years.--Positive influence of breast-milk, despite injurious hand-feeding combined, proved by Foundling Hospital returns.--Case of Wales.--Positive beneficial influence of light, if not too stimulating.--Of some colors.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 39 –43

This chapter discusses conditions which favor viability in infants. Data is provided regarding mortality rates for the first through sixth month of life as well as for the first through fifth year. Data is also given for infant mortality rates among British counties for the years 1862 and 1872....
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Conditions affecting viability, continued--General remarks on the characters of food--It should be animal for a young infant, and supplied by the parent, as proved by analogy among animals and the anatomy of infants--The food should be given to a child in semi-erect position, and warmth required by an infant.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 44 –50

I have before alluded to injudicious food given in the absence of breast-milk, in its relation to mortality. I have now to consider food when given, in its relation to viability. It may then be broadly stated, that animal food is indispensable to a child in the earliest periods of life. I may so...
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Lactation.--Quantity of milk normally secreted.--Three kinds of wet nurses:--First, the healthy nurse; second, a nurse affected with galactorrhoea; third, a nurse affected with defective lactation.--Also three varieties.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 51 –57

The several points before discussed bring us to this conclusion as the one of paramount importance in infant feeding. We must endeavor to give a child, as much as possible, exclusively breast-milk, and this leads us necessarily to the consideration of lactation. A proper cognizance of this...
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Disadvantages to a healthy woman if she does not nurse.--Sore breasts.--Nipples.--Development of cancer, or other uterine diseases.--A diseased offspring.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 58 –60

Should a healthy woman suckle her children? This, and the disadvantages which are likely to result to herself if she does not, are what we have next to consider. This chapter explores physical disorders from sore breasts to cancer and health risks for offspring in relation to women who do not...
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Causes and treatment of galactorrhoea.--Causes: A peculiar temperament--A menorrhagic tendency--Patients who suffer from breast symptoms during the catamenia--Suppression of some habitual excretion--Over-suckling--Hypertrophy of breasts--Treatment: Dietetic; medicinal; iodide of potassium; belladonna; colchicum; iron--Other remedies.

Routh, C. H. F.

Pages: 61 –70

If it be undoubted that, in the case of a healthy woman, it is her bounden duty and for her good, that she should suckle her children, it must be admitted that there is more room for hesitation in the case of a woman affected with galactorrhœa--but even in these cases much may be done, if not...

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