Recent Advances in Infant Feeding

Truby King's theory is that the vast majority of full term babies are born healthy and that they become weakly and unhealthy largely owing to the well-meaning but misguided efforts of the parents and attendants. His great success in reducing infantile mortality in New Zealand to the lowest in the world proves the truth of his hypothesis. Curiously enough he has written nothing for the profession and not very much for the laity; it is still more surprising that he was originally not a pediatrician but a specialist in mental diseases before he became interested in infantile mortality and began his propaganda. Much remains to be done in interesting practitioners in the subject as they receive little or