PEDIATRICS Vol. 63 No. 3 March 1979, pp. 442
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CLINICAL ACUMEN—FIFTY YEARS AGO!

Julius H. Hess

There can be no comparison between the results to be expected in feeding premature infants on human milk, and those to be obtained with artificial food. With human milk taken from a well-regulated department for wet-nurses, the milk can be obtained fresh, practically sterile; it is more digestible; its constituents are of the quality and in the proportions required for the growth and development of the human body; and it is live, and contains many of the immunity-comferring properties, as evidenced by the resistance of a breast-fed infant to infections and contagious diseases. Most of these properties and advantages are lacking in the dead foods used in artificial feeding.