The Value of Nursing Infants

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 50.

The Value of Nursing Infants

A GERMAN doctor placed twenty-one artificially fed infants, suffering from gastric troubles, in the care of wet-nurses, and they all promptly recovered. A healthy wet-nurse will probably cure more ills of infants than any other prescription.—Hom. Recorder.

And the best wet-nurse to be found is the mother of the infants, provided the mother has milk in proper quantity and quality. There should be no question as to the diet of the first year of each baby's life. The mortality of bottle-fed babes is 51 per cent., while that of those nursed is 8 per cent. Words are unnecessary. Forty-three infants out of each hundred are killed by being deprived of their natural food.—The Clinic.