See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " See also:

• FODDER

fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)  , the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• TERM

term for what• is eaten by See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man and other creatures for the sustenance of See also:

• LIFE

life . The scientific aspect of human See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food is dealt with under See also:

• NUTRITION

NUTRITION and See also:

• DIETETICS

DIETETICS . See also:

• INFANCY

Infancy.—The See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of a normal See also:

• DIET

diet upon the See also:

• HEALTH

health of man (we exclude here the question of diet in illness, which must depend on the abnormal conditions existing) begins at the earliest See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage of his life . No food has as yet been found so suitable for the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young of all animals as their See also:

• MOTHER

mother's See also:

• MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk . This, however, has not been from want of seeking . Dr Brouzet (Sur l'See also:

• EDUCATION

education medicinale See also:

• DES

des enfants, i. p . 165) had such a See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion of human mothers, that he expressed a wish for the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state to interfere and prevent them from suckling their See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, lest they should communicate immorality and disease ! A still more determined pessimist was the famous chemist See also:

• VAN

Van See also:

• HELMONT, JEAN BAPTISTE VAN (1577—1644)

Helmont, who thought life had been reduced to its See also:

• PRESENT

present shortness by our inborn propensities, and proposed to substitute See also:

• BREAD

bread boiled in See also:

• BEER

beer and See also:

• HONEY (Chin. me ; Sansk. madhu, mead, honey; cf. A.S. medo, medu, mead; Gr. p Xt, in which 0 or b is changed into X; Lat. mel ; Fr. miel ; A.S. hung ; Ger. Honig)

honey for milk, which latter he calls " See also:

• BRUTE, SIMON WILLIAM GABRIEL (1779–1839)

brute's food." See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

Baron Justus von See also:

• LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON, BARON (1803-1873)

Liebig, as the result of his chemical researches, introduced a " food for infants," which in more See also:

• MODERN

modern days has been followed by a multiplication of patent foods . A See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of human milk may also be made by the addition to fresh cow's milk of See also:

• HALF

half its bulk of soft See also:

• WATER

water, in each See also:

• PINT (derived probably through Spanish, from Lat. pincta, pitta, a painted or marked vessel)

pint of which has been mixed a heaped-up teaspoonful of powdered " See also:

• SUGAR

sugar of milk " and a pinch of phosphate of See also:

• LIME
• LIME (O. Eng. lim, Lat. limes, mud, from linere, to smear)

lime . These artificial substitutes for the natural nutriment have their value where for any See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason it is not available . The wholesomest food, however, for the first six months is certainly mother's milk alone . A vigorous baby can indeed See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear with impunity much rough usage, and often appears none the worse for a certain quantity of farinaceous food; but the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority do not get habituated to it without an See also:

• EXHIBITION

exhibition of dislike which indicates See also:

• REBELLION

rebellion of the bowels .

It is only when the See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth are on their way to the front, as shown by dribbling, that the parotid glands secrete an active saliva capable of digesting bread stuffs . Till then anything but milk must be given tentatively, and considered in the See also:

• LIGHT

light of a means of education for its future mode of nutrition . The See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time for weaning should be fixed partly by the See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child's See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, partly by the growth of the teeth . The first See also:

• GROUP

group of teeth nine times out of ten consists of the See also:

• LOWER

lower central front teeth, which may appear any time during the See also:

• SIXTH

sixth and seventh See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month . The mother may then begin to diminish the number of suckling times; and by a month she can have reduced them to twice a See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, so as to be ready when the second group makes its way through the upper front gums to cut off the See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply altogether . The third group, the lateral incisors and first grinders, usually after the first anniversary of See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, give See also:

• NOTICE

notice that solid food can be chewed . But it is prudent to let See also:

• DAIRY

dairy milk See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a considerable portion of the fare till the See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye-teeth are cut, which seldom happens till the eighteenth or twentieth month . Childhood and Youth.—At this stage of life the diet must obviously be the best which is a transition from that of infancy to that of adult age . Growth is not completed, but yet entire surrender of every See also:

• CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration to the claim of growth is not possible, nor indeed desirable . Moreover, that abundance of adipose See also:

• TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue, or reserve new growth, which a baby can bear is an impediment to the due education of the muscles of the boy or girl . The supply of nutriment need not be so continuous as before, but at the same time should be more frequent than for the adult . Up to at least fourteen or fifteen years of age the See also:

• RULE

rule should be four meals a day, varied indeed, but nearly equal in nutritive See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power and in quantity, that is to say, all moderate, all sufficient .

The maturity the See also:

• BODY

body then reaches involves a hardening and enlargement of the bones and cartilages, and a strengthening of the See also:

• DIGESTIVE

digestive See also:

• ORGANS

organs, which in healthy young persons enables us to dispense with some of the watchful care bestowed upon their diet . Three full meals a day are generally sufficient, and the requirements of See also:

• MENTAL

mental training may be allowed to a certain extent to modify the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to nutrition which has hitherto been See also:

• PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par el mont, up or on top of the mountain)

paramount . Adults.—It is only necessary here to refer to the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on DIETETICS (see also See also:

• VEGETARIANISM

VEGETARIANISM) for a discussion of the food of normal adults; and to such headings as See also:

• DIETARY

DIETARY (for fixed allowances) or See also:

• COOKERY (Lat. coquus, a cook)

COOKERY . Different See also:

• STAPLE

staple articles of food are dealt with under their own headings . For animals other than man see the respective article; on them . Among numerous books on the subject, in addition to those enumerated under DIETETICS, see See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• THOMPSON
• THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1907)
• THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)
• THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, BART
• THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894)
• THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
• THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

Thompson's Foods and Feeding (1894); See also:

• HART, ALBERT BUSHNELL (1854– )
• HART, CHARLES (d. 1683)
• HART, ERNEST ABRAHAM (1835–1898)
• HART, SIR ROBERT
• HART, WILLIAM (1823–1894)

Hart's Diet in Sickness and Health (1896); See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

Knight, Food and its Functions (1895) .