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Otago Witness, Issue 2317, 28 July 1898, Page 53

TO ON THE FEEDING o* their jJSSFANTS. Extract from the Rouseivife Annual, 1896-7. •"TTHERE is not, perhaps, a more impor1 tant question for a mother who is nnable to nurse her infant tlsan the selection of a suitable food as a substitute for that designed by Nature. Sometimes ■ starchy foods are given to young infants j which they are unable to digest, and as a ; consequence, instead of thriving, they ' remain thin and puny; and there are cases where fatal effects have followed such injudicious feeding. How important, then, for mothers in selecting a food to make sure that it is one upoD which reliance may be placed ! "Judging from repute, as well as from many excellent medical and private testimonials, \ the infants' food prepared by Messrs. Josiah j R. Neave 6- Co., of Fordingbridge, may conscientiously be recommended n" 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 Laboratory of Rhenish Prussia, it is stated that the microscopic examination of Neave's Food, well cooked witb 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 aud 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 stales that the starcb is so split up that after cooking no evidence of its presence caD be detected by the microscope ; thus doing away \o this particular instance witb the objection that foods containing starcb are not digested by very young children; and the fact that numerous children have been brought up from birtb upon this food, witb the best results, is the strongest proof of the correctness of what is stated The Lancet, the Medical Journal, and other well-known medica) magazines have spoken in praise of Ne?,ve's Food, also many eminent doC tors in this country, as well as in Germany and America." win sEvsm YEARS' ESTABLISHED i Best & Cheapest, Id x-lb. Patent Air-Tight Tina. f