Toddlers make a transition from dependent milk-fed infancy to independent feeding and a typical omnivorous diet. This stage is an important time for physicians to monitor growth using growth charts and body mass index and to make recommendations for healthy eating. Fat and cholesterol restriction should be avoided in children younger than two years. After two years of age, fat should account fo...

The consumption of soft drinks has increased dramatically over past several decades; the soft drink industry is reported to produce 10 billion 192-ounce cases per year. Over a 50-year period, annual soft drink production appears to have increased fivefold, from 100 12-ounce cans per person in 1947 to nearly 600 12ounce cans per person in 1997. Looking at it another way, the average person in 19...

By Donald Paterson, B.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., and George Newns, M.D., F.R.C.P. Tenth Edition. (Pp. ix+188; figs. 15. 15s.) London: Constable, 1956. THE most recent edition of this book presents a clear picture of orthodox British practice in the feeding of young children. The section on breast feeding is excellent and incorporates several recent advances in the physiology and management of lactatio...

By Donald Paterson, B.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., and George Newns, M.D., F.R.C.P. Tenth Edition. (Pp. ix+188; figs. 15. 15s.) London: Constable, 1956. THE most recent edition of this book presents a clear picture of orthodox British practice in the feeding of young children. The section on breast feeding is excellent and incorporates several recent advances in the physiology and management of lactatio...

During a period of four successive years there is a. record at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, of ninety infants admitted suffering from tetany in a. more or less severe form. Of this number twenty had been breast-fed to date, some of the older infants taking in addition a. milk dilution and sometimes cereal and biscuit. Two others of the ninety had been exclusively breast-fed to withi...

Donor human milk has been used in the United States for 90 years, but recent advances in human milk science and laboratory techniques have led to increasing use of this resource. Pediatricians began using donor human milk in the 1900s in response to anecdotal observation that premature infants had better health outcomes when receiving their own mothers’ milk. Since then, a formalized human milk...

What is Alcoholic Liver Disease? As the name implies, alcoholic liver disease is liver injury attributed to alcohol abuse. The majority of Americans manage to drink alcohol without serious consequences. Research suggests, however, that liver disease may begin to develop after a "threshold" dose of alcohol has been consumed—generally assumed to be four drinks a day (four 12 ounces beers, four gl...

prevail. Was bled immediately to thirty ounces, and a brisk cathartic afterwards given. 12th. Experienced temporary relief from the bloodletting; blood cupped, with a firm crassamentum. Cathartic operated well. Dyspnoea troublesome. Bloodletting to be repeated, and antimonial medicines to be given in the afternoon. 13th. Blood abstracted yesterday (20 ounces), exhibited inflammatory buff in a h...