This is my sixth instalation from "The Care and Feeding of Children" by L.
Emmet Holt

This time I covering the instructions for artificial feeding

"PREPARATION OF COW'S MILK AT HOME

What articles are required for the preperstion of cow's milk at home?
Feeding bottles, rubber nipples, an eight-ounce graduated measuring glass, a
galss or agate funnel, bottle brush, cotton, alcohol lamp or, better, a
Bunsen gas burner, a tall quart cup for warming bottles of milk, a pitcher
for mixing the food, a wide-mouth bottle for boric acid and one for
bicarbonate of soda, and a pasteurizer.  Later, a double boiler for cooking
cereals will be needed.

What bottles are preferred?
A cylindrical graduated bottle with a rather wide neck, so as to admit of
easy washing, and onewhich contains no angles or corners.  A single size
holding eight ounces is quite sufficient for use during the first year.  All
complicated bottles are bad, being difficult to clean.  One should have as
many bottles in use as the child takes meals a day.

How should bottles be cared for?
As soon as they are emptied they should be rinsed with cold water and
allowed to stand filled with water to which a little bicarbonate of soda has
been added.  Before the milk is put into them they should be thoroughly
washed with a bottle brush abd hot soap-suds and then boiled or placed for
ten minutes in boiling water.

What sort of niples should be used?
Only simple striaght nipples which slip over the neck of the bottle.  Those
with a rubber or glass tube are too complicated and very difficult to keep
clean.  Nipples made of black rubber are to be preferred.  The hole in the
nipple should not be so large that the milk will run in a stream, but just
large enough for it to drop rapidly when the bottle with the nipple attached
is inverted.
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Give the directions for preparing the food according to any of the above
formulas.
        The nurse's hands, bottles, tables, and all utensils should be
scrupulously clean.  If flour is used in the food, this is cooked in water
for twenty minutes and then sufficient boiled water added to bring the total
quantity up to what is called for in the formula.  When this has cooled, the
milk and sugar should be added and the whole mixed in a pitcher.  The food
for twenty-four hours is always to be prepared at one time.  The amount
needed for each feeding is placed at once in the ice-box or the food is
first pasturized according to directions given elsewhere."

Nancy Sherwood-LLLL&IBCLC- Perth, Australia