Infant-feeding in its relation to health and disease, by Louis Fischer; containing 54 illustrations, with 24 charts and tables, mostly original . d that most of them couldagain be found in the intestinal canal. He further foundthat certain germs possessed diastasic properties and werecapable of producing lactic-acid fermentation. In themilk-feces of nurslings Escherich found two germs; theone he called bacterium lactis aerogenes (or bacteriumaceticum, Baginsky) and the other the bacterium colicommune. In the meconium he found proteus vulgaris, (261) 2G2 INFANT-FEEDING. streptococcus coli graci
Infant-feeding in its relation to health and disease, by Louis Fischer; containing 54 illustrations, with 24 charts and tables, mostly original . d that most of them couldagain be found in the intestinal canal. He further foundthat certain germs possessed diastasic properties and werecapable of producing lactic-acid fermentation. In themilk-feces of nurslings Escherich found two germs; theone he called bacterium lactis aerogenes (or bacteriumaceticum, Baginsky) and the other the bacterium colicommune. In the meconium he found proteus vulgaris, (261) 2G2 INFANT-FEEDING. streptococcus coli gracilis, and bacillus subtilis. Thenumber of stools during the first two weeks is from 3 to6 daily. After the first month the average is 2 stoolsdaily; many infants have 1, others 3 stools daily. Thislatter is due largely to the excessive quantities of watergiven to infants. As soon as the exclusive milk diet is changed to themixed diet we then lose the characteristic infantile stool,and it resembles more that of an adult, though remain-ing softer and thinner throughout infancy. The stoolsbecome darker in color, assume the adult odor, and have. Fig. 44.—Scherings Formalin Disinfecting-lamp. Well Adaptedas a Deodorizer in the Nursery. more varieties of bacteria than those previously mentionedas found in the stool of a milk diet. Reaction of Stools.—Reaction of stools in diarrhoealdisease and in health is chiefly acid or, next in frequency,neutral. Alkaline stools are rare. Green-grass stools,usually acid, are seen in the early stage of dyspeptic diar-rhoea, the color from a pale greenish yellow to grass-green,owing to improper food. Wegscheider has shown that the green color is theresult of preformed biliverdin. The condition in the in-testine, upon which the transformation of bilirubin intobiliverdin depends, has been generally regarded as one ofacid fermentation. INFANT-STOOLS. 263 Experiments.—Pfeiffers experiments70 show this for-mer opinion to be wrong. He found that none
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