Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-08

milk let them report the clinical evidences of its
injurious nature.
woMAN's MILK rs. cows MILK.
DIR. Gardner said that cows milk was not as
good for infants as woman's milk, principally
because tile cows milk has more caseln IN it
Now, is it not rational that swlil-milk, having
nearly twice as much casein in it as pure cows
milk, should be still worse for infants! why
should not the physician avail himself oil the
assistance of chemistry to discover the cause oil
the sweeping mortality for which our city IS IN
famous9 The diseases Of which our children
die are arrangements of the digestive organs
why those organs were so generally affected II
needed no new clinical experiment to SNOW
Every man who had attended city children knew
WHY they died-the swill-beef diet of the pa
rents. and the swill-mk diet of the children,
had long ago been obvious as the great causes.
WHY REQUIRE that still others be poisoned be-
fore arraying ourselves against the poison
MORE 'pER CONTRA"
DIR. Detmold said this sweeping style oil con
demning the business oflarge classes OF men, ne
did not believe in. 1t was an ungratetul task,
especially just now, to oppose the current oil
invective,.to admit for a moment that dIstil-
lery milk was not the cause oil all our mani II
mortality Still it was not so very well
known" that swill.lnilk was so poisonous. 1t
was quite doubtful if it were known at all
The fact that the COWS are SO metimes diseased
,,,,c no rerfect assurance that the milk was IN
furious. Geese were fattened into disease oil
the liver to furnish pate de toie grdS, yet the
nate was very good. Why not make raid
upon diseased geese and cry out against the
diseased livers we should get if we eat this deli
cacy? Why not cry out against lager-bler, be-
couse if increases the milk secretion? He did
not believe in the Academy's poking itself into
every strife that the daily newspapers chose to
manufacture There were thousands OF other
causes than swill-milk for infant mortality
He'd rather investigate the matter through some
Committee, before committing the Academy To
the language of the resolutions. We should
feel fiat, if after passing them, the sWlll-mlk
should be abolished and the rate of infant NOR
tality continue as great as ever He did not
care to pledge the Academy that in case any
one article of diet were entirely disused, the
human family should be produced faster or i've
longer.
ONE LEARNED DOCTOR PUTS a LEADING QUESTION.
DIR. Gardner said, in answer to Err. Detmold,
that if infants were generally fed pate de JoIe
oras. and thousands of geese were kept alive in
heated ovens to furnish the diseased livefs for
infant diet he should certainly think it compe-
tent for the Academy to petition the authorities
to put a stop to the business, both on the
grounds of inhumanity to animals and of injury
to the children Would DR.. Detmold consent that
u child of his be wet-nurSed by woman who,
through all the years of her adult life, was coop
ed up in a narrow, nasty room, her head tied
fast to table leg, her mouth sore, her<sOle dl-
ct n hot swill that, until hunger and necessity
compelled it to be taken, was loathsome to her,
not one drop of water to drink, from january
to January again. her tiba necrosed, her hesh
liberated and her whole body perpetualiy few
erish and her blood corrupted? If he would,
then he may reasonably feed swill-milk to his
children, but not otherwise.