Clinical Lectures on Infant Feeding

Excerpt from Clinical Lectures on Infant Feeding: Boston Methods, And, Chicago Methods As these lectures represent a somewhat new method of post graduate medical education in this country, the history leading to their development may be of interest. The plan originated with Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary of the Board of Health of the State of North Carolina. He conceived the idea of bringing the medical school, in the person of a traveling lecturer, to the doors of the physician, enabling the latter in this way to con tinde with his practice instead of being compelled to leave it for several months while he sought postgraduate education in one of the large medical centers. Upon hearing of this scheme, President E. K. Graham, of the University of North Carolina, gave it his enthusiastic support, and courses were arranged under the joint auspices of the University and the State Board of Health. Two sections of six classes each were organized, one in the eastern part of the State, one in the western. Each of us had six towns in his circuit, and traveled each day to a new town, returning to the first one at the beginning of each week. One of us was trained in the methods used in Boston, the other in Chicago, with postgraduate work in Europe. As a result of this dissimilarity in our training the lectures differ a good deal, and it occurred to us that it might be of value to combine the two sets in one volume, so that the teachings of two somewhat different schools of infant feeding may be compared. Each of us has prepared and presented his course of lectures independently of the other and without knowledge of the other's methods and plans. It is with a spirit of cooperation rather than rivalry, of construction than destruction, that we offer them to the profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.