How to Drink Milk.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 4

How to Drink Milk.

' What did you drink ?’ asked the doctdr.

' Nothing that could have made me sie’fe, t axil stir£j’ replied the patient. * Only a glass of milk.’ . ' Did you drink it quickly ?’ ‘ No quicker than usual.’

* I thought so. Now let me give you • a word of advice. Many persons complain that they cannot drink milk without being ‘' distressed by it..” Tho most common reason why milk is not well borne is due to the fact that people generally drink it too quickly. If a glass of it is swallowed hastily it enters the stomach and then forms in one solid, curdled mass, diffioult of digestion. If, on the other hand, the same quantity is sipped, and three minutes at least is occupied in drinking it, then, on reaching tne stomach, it is so divided that when coagulated, as it must always be by the gastric juice while digestion is going on, instead of being in one hard condensed mass, upon the outside of which only the digestive fluids can act, it is more in the form of a sponge and in and out of the entire bulk the gastric juice can freely play and perform its tion Milk may be rendered more digestible, and; for many, of a most agreeabletaste, if prepared by slowing adding a few drops of dilute hydrochloric acid to it .drop by drop, while stirring it at the same time. By this means the curd is broken, up, and it is iu a more favorable state to be- acted upon by the digestive fluids. You follow my advice and you will have no more attacks of sickness such as the one you are troubled with to-day.’