The practice of pediatrics . ment, but such cases re-quire careful investigation andgood judgment. The usual pro-gress of a normal, healthy infant isbest indicated by the accompanyingweight chart, devised by Dr. L. (Fig. 34). The normal infantshould show on the average aweekly gain of not less than fourounces during the first six months;thereafter it may be somewhat who are bottle-fed frombirth often begin to gain moreslowly than the breast-fed, butif good digestion is maintained should later regain the difference. All spring and dial scales arenotoriously unreliable and us
The practice of pediatrics . ment, but such cases re-quire careful investigation andgood judgment. The usual pro-gress of a normal, healthy infant isbest indicated by the accompanyingweight chart, devised by Dr. L. (Fig. 34). The normal infantshould show on the average aweekly gain of not less than fourounces during the first six months;thereafter it may be somewhat who are bottle-fed frombirth often begin to gain moreslowly than the breast-fed, butif good digestion is maintained should later regain the difference. All spring and dial scales arenotoriously unreliable and useless to record small variations. To giveone any immediate assistance in judging of the effects of the foodprescribed, upon children of difficult digestion, the scales should beof the balance variety and register half-ounces. The ordinary grocersscale with scoop, or scoop and platform, can now be obtained cheaplyenough to have a place in every physicians office and to be purchasedby parents of even moderate means (Fig. 35).*. Scales for weighing infants. FEEDING AFTER THE FIRST YEAR. Because weaning now becomes necessary at an earlier age than wasformerly the case, owing to the failure of the supply of breast milk,especially among the dwellers in large towns and cities, and also generallyamong the wealthier classes, no ground exists for assuming that thedigestive powers of the infant have taken on correspondingly earlierdevelopment. It is an unquestioned fact that many children are seriously A reliable scoop and platform scale of this pattern, weighing from % oz. to 244 lbs., can be ob-tained from the Metropolitan Hardware Co., cor. Church and Vesey Streets, New York City, at a costof 83. li;s IN FA XT FEEDING handicapped and exposed to great dangers under the mistaken ideathat this period is the proper one for the introduction into the childsdietary of general table food. Second only to the revolution in thefeeding of the first year by the introduction of mollified milk have b
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