Clinical Studies in the Treatment of the Nutritional Disorders of Infancy

This little book is a supplement to the author's Nutrition of the Infant, published a couple of years ago, and is a series of clinical reports on infants treated in the Infants' Hospital. The object of the author is to show that slight variations in the percentages of the food stuffs make all the difference in the success or failure of infant feeding, especially in the marasmic, rachitic or otherwise abnormal babies who are brought into hospitals. The cases are rather elaborately reported, and the milk prescriptions given in full. On general principles we are in entire agreement with the author. Careful milk prescriptions either worked out on percentages of the chief constituents or on some other convenient method, are the only means we have of regulating the feeding of infants who cannot be brought up on the breast, and of restoring to health those who have been improperly dieted. The very small variations in diet percentages to which Dr. Vincent attributes so much importance do not appear to us of proved value when judged from the records in this book.