The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
[ NUMBER 48.
MILK DIET.

The greater the advance in knowledge
ofthe science of medicine, and of the
human body to preserve its health. the
more Importance is attached to the use
OF milk for food, and toits healing prop
critics when administered in illness.
Milk contains nourishment for eve1v
part of the body. Bone, muscle. brain
and flesh can be sustained in fine con.
dition by milk diet. The human frame
is healthier when fed by varieties in
food; yet certain quantity of milk
should be taken every day by every per-
son There never was any article of diet
so subject to whims and ignorant
produces, as milk. Some dislike it,others
itmak@s sleepy bilious" or ''headachy."
1t affects the bowels of many as physic.
and is constipating to others. The
persons who dislike milk, or with whom
it "does not agree" are Invariably the
ones who require it, and whom it would
probably rejuvenate did they so prepare
it as to make it palatable and suitable
to their particular constitutions. Milk
diluted one-third with lime-water, will
not cause any one bilicusneSs or headache.
and,if taken regularly, will so strengthen
the stomach as TO Danish these disorders,
1t may be taken with acid OF some kind
when it does not easily digest.
The idea that milk must not be eaten
with pickles is Lot an intelligent one, as
milk curdles in the stomach nearly as
soon as 1t is swallowed. When milk is
constipating, as it is frequently found
to be by persons who drink freely of il
IN the country in the Summer time, a
little salt sprinkled in each glassful will
prevent the difficulty. When it has an
opposite result a few drops of brandy in
each goblet of milk will obviate It's
purgative effect. AS milk is so essential
to the health of our bodies, it is as well
to consider aohen 10 take it, as how. It
is mistake to drink milk between meals
or with food at the table. In the former
case it will destroy the appetite, and in
the latter it is never proper TO drink
anything. After finishing each meal
goblet of pure milk should be drank,and
If anyone wishes to grow fleshy, & pint
taken before retiring at night will soon
cover the scraWniest bones. Although
we see great many feshy women, there
are many lean and lank ones who sigh
for the fashionable measure Of plumpness.
and who would be vestly improved in
health and appearance could their figures
be rounded with good flesh.
In cases of fever midsummer complaint
milk is given with excellent results.
The idea that milk is "teverish" has
exploded. and it is now the physicians
great reliance in bringing through
typhoid patients, or those in too low
state to be nourished by solid food. It
is mistake to scrimp the milk pitcher.
Take more milk and buy less meat. Look
to your milkman, have large-slzed, well
tilled milk pitchers on the table each
meal, and you will also have sound flesh
and light doctors bills.
But one thing is ofthe first importance,
viz That the milk must be pure and
sweet. Milk which comes from badly
fed COWS, or which has been kept till it
becomes stale, is worse than worthless as
food. 1t will breed a terrible train of
evils. There are not many stomachs
which can comfortably digest milk which
is twenty-four hours old. Pure, new
milk, warm from the COW, if taken in
moderation, will not eonsipate nor
occasion heaviness or headache. To
semd persons it may induce q trihine
sense of fullness at first, but that will
pass of in three or four days. Thous-
ands of cases Of dyspepsia, chronic, or
habitual headache and disturbance may
be cured by the use of pure, sweet milk
as the sole beverage and the chief food.
Body and Mind
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