Excerpt from Buffalo Medical Journal, Vol. 59: August 1903 to July 1904 The digestive organs of a young infant are exceedingly sensi tive, easily deranged, and the simple functional derangement speed ily becomes a gastric or intestinal catarrh. Hence the importance of paying attention to the food for the first month or two and of promptly and intelligently making necessary changes in the food to relieve the minor symptoms of indigestion. Feeble diges tion or chronic indigestion are seldom due to inherited conditions, but in most cases are the result of previous bad feeding or bad nursing. The carefully obtained history is of great value -in enabling one to judge of the condition and capabilities of the digestive organs of an individual child. A careful regulation of the milk percentages in intelligent hands will, in private practice, be successful in a great majority of cases. Success by this method may be extended in proportion to the accuracy of' the diagnosis of the case, of the symptoms, and to the degree of error _in the previous prescriptions employed. Cases that cannot be helped in this way are chiefly very young infants, and those in which the disorder 18 of long standing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.