New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-26
DtsftlIerv MIX.

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our City. It was prepared at our request BY
scientific gentleman Of the highest character. whose
/ name vii be communicated TO any one who may
| wish 70 know it. We urge the facts be presents
MON the consideration Of every one who Is inter
e,ted in the public health. Shall the trade In an
article so perncious as distery IElk be permitted
within the limits Of New-Y0rkl
While other countries have their Conmissoosrs ior
nquirirs into the Of large towns snd Popaio0' as
;rc. il i indeed remarkable that 10 Government Ike
cure whore TIE people directly iuIerestea snu
have 10 their ova hands the control Of regusions o
The preservation Of health that Lille should Dc done
toward securing this o5sct and that sueh general inoH
ference should De manifested IN relation 70 the "no-
subject Amopg the causes Of disease 10 our
Civ there Is probably one more influential snd oe'
.trucuve 10 life thsn the extensive use Of disterysOP
milk =. Al article Of diet In mP nee with your r.
quest gives pleasure 70 lay before your resderst he
view. entertain 10 relation 70 this matter TIE result Of
some years Of inquiry and o5ser7suon-vie"' more
over which are held universally believe y the i-cay
/ OF Esv.YOrk.
First would notice that siil!slop feeding renders
milk ianutraious Healthy milk contains three stsmns
PRINCIPLES. viz sugar oil and sloumen; Nth certain 60
line or lees perfectly comoined ana 'us
pended 10 squeous medium The NUTRIENT qualities
Of milk reside IN these elementary principles when I'M
par, to 1t greater spschc gravity than water 80 dfn
Gent however is distiery milk 10 aoumnous ana Ole
ssnou. properties that il s entirely incapable Of pro
sucng butier or cheese. The Psychologist Will tell sou
that lacking these II lacks those qualities which are es
.entis 70 the healthy noushmen the Development $40
consolidation Of toe animal body One quart oil pure
country milk contsn. more nutrent than two or three
HarnsFN a .aFf.
j. rarely if ever sold in this City without having under
gone the previous process Of druggng and cAutng II
any one doubt. this, Jet him add LILLE nitric acid to
auautty Of the milk and tnen few drops Of solution
OF iodide Of potash, when be will have deep
blue color, showing the presence Of starch either
in the form OF sour. srrowroot or rice powder &c
Our citizens can easily manufacture for themselves
better and more nutritious MIX, 50 called, b
adding to pint Of warm water spoonful Of aour
and four gram. Of msgnesa and Will Promi'e them it
will 20 as far toward the nourishment Of children be-
side possessing the important advantage OF containing
no scroulous or tuberculous matter which rarely
be said of that anomalous fluid strained thrsugh the
udders Of diseased oisullery cows Milk Of country
daires contains nearly 10 per cent on an average Of
cream (Mr Dome recent French writer on this sub
jet says from Is to 20 per cent? while that Of dstery
diaries contains scarcely utyee per cent The former
also conisns nearly per cent Of curd while the latter
averages less than The former is decidedly alkaline
the latter distinctly acid This IT, however, guarded
against TO considerable extent by the addition Of nsg
ne,ia or soda 10 the year l529, when my attention
was particularly called this subject drew up the fol
lowing paper. which signed by more than nv Of
the fret physicians 10 the City OF New and publish
ed extensively in City papers every physician but
one having signed 1t 20 whom II was presented and be
declined On account of his ignorance Of the subject
The undersigned Physicians Of the City OF New.
York ueng Quested press their opinion Ia relation
10 the milk uf COWS fed chi, fy csrery Stops have
hesitation in stating that they believe such milk 10 De
tremey detrimental to tho health especially of young
children. il not only contains too tHte HEH'poi Tor
the purposes of TODD but appears u possess unhealthy
and injurious propertes owing IN part PROBABLY 10 the
confinement OF the cows ebd the bad sif which they
consequently nave to breathe well as the unnatural
aud prInciOus nature Of the Stops on which they ere
ted
Among the name, appended to this certificate those
of Drs Francis stearns Beck, Ludlow, Bliss, Torrey.
Wilson, vanderoergh. Cock, Reese Boyd DOane, stew
art Washington Gilbert Smith. Pencil. &c &c. II tee.
tmony of this kind is deemed satisfactory and con
elusive then nothing that could say would be likely to
produce conviction.
Disunery milk moreover. contains postrely nozous
properties unless corrected by Hks, 1t contains
large proportion of free and tactic acids which
very sure produce arrangement the digestive organs
Ia young children To this attribute in part the
extreme frequency and fatality of cholera inisntum and
the ordinary bowel affections Of children in this City
need hardly remark that deprived OF pure air.
adequate exercise and natural food must necessarily be
in diseased state and the milk must OF necessity par
OF the disease and be impure, unhealthy and innu
trtous. No visit the low, close hot and
sbomipsbly filthy pens where these cows are confined
without arriving at this conclusion and no one can prac
medicine In this City for any length Of time without
meeting with of disease resulting from toe
OF this unhealthy milk. The nursing child as Is well
known often suffers from changes In the milk produced
by strong mental emotions Of the mother and even from
her OF acdulsed drinks s strange then that slop
milk should cause disease 10 children fed with III
we known fact that this kind OF milk cannot be kept
but very short time without spelling il turns and
emits very unpleasant odor standing; II examined
by the microscope instead OF milk giobules or faresi
ees with which pure and healthy milk abounds zee
nothing but thin watery fluid containing frequently
starch grsnules and in many instances innumersble
host OF niusory SHtalese rribrio eyaHoeeaHs which
sPpesr to have the pDwer OF gradually changing the
milk to blue color. From facts which have been
Gently observed III highly probable that scrofulous and
tubereulous mssdes are propsgated through the me
dunn Of unhealthy milk. Cows that confined in
close, ivenulsed, filthy places As already observed
universally attacked with disease. Generally there
are iuberculous and scroiuous deposits in various
organs and II particles Of this diseased matter
should mad their way through the sbsor5ents into
the blood and be discharged through the milk
it would only be In accordance with other phenomena
OF en- analogous kind Can any deny, that disease
may thus be engrsfted upon the tender constitution Of
the child. even ind Judgment in the more hardy
AID resisting frame Of the adult The statistics Of
tally among children in the City Of NewYork, show
that the rso Of desihs has been constantly the in
crease tor the las. 30 years tina, from % per cent
OF deaths under five years in ls hnd it high
~ per cent in ls4O excluding the su bern and II Is
nov sui higher. There is city in this country
10 Europe 50 far know where the mortality under
aseysars of age Is great in this City In London IL
is only about 81 per cent 10 indeed remarkable that
in City Astounding with such admirable facilities for
health and for cleanliness by drainage sc NswYork
that little should be done in the way Of improving
these advantages; that such spsihy should have
seized upon the entire population, Magistrates In.
euded 80 that, is Pexs to impossible to have such
sanAtory regulations adopted and carried out would
make this City what ii ought To be. and may De the
heAthest city of ia size on the zipb- What other e,x