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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11191, 13 August 1898, Page 7

' •■ TP -'V ■-:-, ■ ON XHE '. .','■'». FEEDING of ■ THEIR INFANTS. Extract from the Housewife Annual, 1896-7., '"TM3ERE is not,-.perhaps, a more impor- ■ 4- tant question for a,mother who is unable to nurse her infant than the selection of a suitable food as a substitute for that designed by Nature. Sometimes starchy foods are given 10 young infants which they are unable to digest, and as a : consequence; instead of thriving, they remain thin and puny; • and there are cases where fafal effects have followed sucl/injudicious feeding. How important, then, for mothers'.'in' selecting a food to make sure that it is one upon winch reliance raay be placed \ ,' " "Judging from repute, as well as from many excellent medical and private testimonials, j the infants' food prep ared by Messrs, Josiah R. Neave & Co., of. Fordingbridge, may conscientiously be recommended. "A mistake may be made in classing this food with ordinary starchy foods, the use of which for young infants is to be deprecated. In a report of Dr. A." Stutzer, the Well-known analytical chemist of Bonn, who is a director of the Chemical Labora- ' tory of Rhenish Prussia, it is stated that the microscopic examination of Neave's Food, well cooked with milk, showed that no regular cellular .structure of the vegetable constituents' origin could be recognised, and that the starch contained in the uncooked food was made fully digestible by cooking ; and as regards the proportion of flesh-forming albuminoids and the boneforming salts, there exists a perfect uniformity between Neave's Food and mothers' milk. A further important testimony to the value of this food, as relating to the matter in question, has been given in the Medical Magazine, edited by Dr. George J. Wilson, M.A., which states that the starch, is so split up that after cooking no evidence pf. its presence can be detected by the microscope; thus doing away in this particular instance with- the objection that foods containing starch are not digested byvery young children; and the fact that numerous children have been brought up from birth upon this food, with the best results, is the strongest proof of the correctness of what'is stated. The Lancet, the Medical Journal, a,nd other well-known medical magazines have spoken in praise of Neave's Food, also many eminent doctors in this country, as well as in Germany, and America." ,' OVER SEVENTY YEARS' ESTABLISHED REPUTATION. Best & Cheapest. '- In i-lb. Patent Air-Tight Tica»