1020 The Cornell Reading-Courses 



A guide to club study 



I. Methods of Infant Feeding. 



A. Natural method or breast feeding. 



1. Composition and characterstics of mother's milk as compared 



with the milk of other animals. 



2. Relative feebleness of the baby and other young animals. 



3. Reasons for better results obtained by using mother's milk. 



4. Causes of the inability of the mother to nurse her baby and 



of the failure of the child to flourish. 



5. How these causes may be remedied. 



6. Has the. State any responsibility in legislating so as to secure 



to the working woman the privilege of nursing her children? 

 B. Artificial feeding. ' 



1. Milk of some other animal, 



a. Cow's milk. 



1. Characteristics as compared with human milk. 



2. Reasons for difficulties in using cow's milk for infant 



feeding. 



3. Underlying principles in modifying milk. 



4. Methods of adapting cow's milk to suit the baby. 



5. The use of various gruels in making modified milk 



mixtures. 



6. Causes of differences in results obtained by using milk 



from various breeds of cattle. 



7. Clean milk. 



a. Relative cleanness of cow's milk and human milk 



when it reaches the child. 



b. Possibilities of infecting cow's milk on its way to the 



child. 



c. Practical problems in producing clean milk. 



d. Sterilization and pasteurization. 



e. SteriHzed milk, pasteurized milk, or milk produced 



tinder clean conditions, — which.? 



b. Goat's milk, etc. 



2. Patent or proprietary foods. 



a. Comparative composition of various patent foods and 



human milk. 



b. Reasons for the use of patent foods. 



c. Their use and abuse. 



d. Possible injury from ignorant use of patent foods. 



e. Reasons for advantages of cow's milk over other foods in 



artificial feeding. 



