STERILISED MILK DOCTORS AT VARIANCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 12

STERILISED MILK DOCTORS AT VARIANCE.

"The man who sterilises good milk is a fool, and the man who sterilises bad milk is a rogue," declared Dr. Vincent at the Cheshire Milk Producers' annual dinneF at Crewe. Dr. Vincent is a colleague of Mr. Robert Mond in experiments now being conducted in England with milk as a food in the infants' hospital and the research laboratory built and equipped and maintained entirely by Mr. Mond. The greatest mistake, indeed, the most ghastly disaster that had ever occurred in this country, declared Dr. Vincent, was when the medical profession started the advocacy of cooked milk. It was absolutely impossible to obtain a sterilised milk that was fit for consumption The purest milk, fortunately, contained a considerable number of bacteria which were of vital importance to the infant, because they manufactured lactic acid from the sugar in the milk. What had saved babies fed on boiled milk was that the mothers had not carried out the instructions of the doctors. While raw milk never putrefied, but underwent a certain lactic decomposition, boiled milk did putrefy, and it was this process of putrefaction in the infants' digestive organs which was so dangerous, especially in the summer.