ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OF INFANTS.
Why are so many young mothers in civilized communities unable to nurse their infants ?
Dr. Chalmers Watson of Edinburgh, Scotland, says: " The failure to nurse at the present day depends in great measure on a physical inability on the part of the mothers. There are many children who are reared artificially simply because their mother cannot nurse them. This inability to nurse must depend on some structural or functional change in the mammary glands. I venture to think that the main cause of this structural or functional change in these glands may be the increase in the consumption of animal food, to which I have drawn special attention. I have lately tested the correctness of this view by experimental investigation. In the course of the investigation on diet referred to in my letter, definite facts have been obtained which show that the administration of an excessive meat diet to animals is followed by structural and functional changes in the mammary glands of pregnant animals, these changes finding expression in an inability of the animals to rear their young."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8626, 7 December 1906, Page 6
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182ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OF INFANTS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8626, 7 December 1906, Page 6
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