FEEDING INFANTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXI, Issue 5465, 27 February 1875, Page 1 (Supplement)

FEEDING INFANTS.

- Tho most perfect food for children, the only one, indeed, which, can be trusted to . au Pp1y in itself all tho necessary element! of nutrition in tho most digestible form, is milk, * In it are contained nitrogenous matter in the curd, fat in the cream, besides sugar, and tho salts which are so essential to perfect nutrition. The milk of different animals varies to a 'certain extent in the proportion of the several constituents, some containing more curd, others more cream ana sugar, but the milk of the cow, which is always readily obtainable, is the one to which resource is usually had, and when proporly prepai'ed thifl is perfectly efficient for tho purpose required, Cow's milk contains a large proportion of curd and cream, but less sugar than is found in human milk, and these differences con be immediately remedied by dilution with water and the addition of cane or milk sugar in sufficient quantities to supply the necessary sweetness. But there is another and more important difference between the two fluids which, must not 'be lost sight of. If we take two. children, the one fed on cow's milk and' water, tha other htirsed at its • rriotlier's, breast, and produce vomiting directly after^ a meal, by friction over the abdomen; we* notice a remarkable difference in the matters ejected. Tn the first caso we see the curd of the milk coagulated into a firm dense lump, while in the second -"the curd appears in the form of minute flacculqht loosely-connected granules.;' £He dqpjqmls made upon the digestive powers in those two cases is very difforent, ahd'thV, pxperiment explains tho difficulty often' experienced by infants in digesting cow's milk, however diluted it may be, for the addition of water alone Avill not hinder the firm clotting of the curd. — The Sanitary Record.

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