A treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood . eir milk. Their self-devotion necessitates earlyweaning, whereas, had they exercised more regard for their ownhealth, and learned to hear with composure the cries, which oftendo not indicate any bodily want or distress, they might continueto suckle their infants during the usual period. The milk secreted during gestation, and immediately after thebirth of the infant, differs in its gross appearance, as well as che-mical and microscopical characters, from that which is ordinarilysecreted in a state of health. It is termed colostrum. It has a
A treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood . eir milk. Their self-devotion necessitates earlyweaning, whereas, had they exercised more regard for their ownhealth, and learned to hear with composure the cries, which oftendo not indicate any bodily want or distress, they might continueto suckle their infants during the usual period. The milk secreted during gestation, and immediately after thebirth of the infant, differs in its gross appearance, as well as che-mical and microscopical characters, from that which is ordinarilysecreted in a state of health. It is termed colostrum. It has aturbid and yellowish appearance, and is somewhat viscid. It isdecidedly alkaline, and undergoes lactic acid fermentation morereadily than common milk, and it also contains more solid has an excess of fat, of salts, and, according to Simon, also ofsugar. It appears, from Simons analysis, that the solid matter ofcolostrum is about seventeen per cent., while that of the ordinarybreast-milk is about eleven per cent. cfo^;?,. Milk Globules. Colostrum Corpuscles. Examined by the microscope, the colostrum is seen to containoil globules and a viscid substance, which often assumes an ovoidor globular form, but which also exists in irregular masses of con- FACTS AND RULES IN REFERENCE TO LACTATION. 35 siderable size. This substance has been thouglit by some to bemucus, but it is dissolved by acetic acid and potash, and is tingedyellow by a watery solution of iodine. It is, therefore, to beregarded as albuminous. Imbedded in this substance are oil glo-bules, which are for the most part of small size, while the free oilglobules of colostrum are larger than those occurring in healthymilk. This viscid substance, with the imprisoned oil globules,constitutes what has been designated the colostrum have erroneously considered the colostrum corpuscles tobe compound granular cells. The compound granular cell, or cor-puscle, is a cell which has undergone fatty degeneration
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