The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-02-26
93atsreI1men11s.
THE BABY'S PERILS,
HOW DEATH LURKs IN THE FEED-
ING BOTTLE.
A Paper on "Ths Artificial Feeding Of In
fants," Read Before the n. y. O.
Medical Association, Feb.
8, by DR.. VIC.
Johnson.

The problem of which is the best art
fetal food for infants, and how to pre-
pare il, is one which every general prat
titiouer of medicine is almost daily cal
ed upon to solve. II it be true-and
think no one will dispute it-that tn
best food for any of the young Of the ma
malta, is the milk of the healthy femsl
Of its kind, then that food which mos
nearly approaches the milk Of the moth
or in all it's properties is par excellence th'
best artificial food for the infant
Careful analyses Of the various kindl
of milks, by different and numerous
chemists, demonstrate that the milk o
the COW approximates more nearly tt
that Of the woman, than that Of eithel
the goat, the ass, the sheep or the mare
The difference consists mainly in thai
the milk of the COW contains a trife lest
water, little more of Casein, double the
amount of butter, and a small quantity
less Of sugar, than that of woman.
The milk to be fed to the infant should
be supplied by a young COW, recently
fresh, well fed and cared for, kindly
treated, aud she should not be allowed
to become with calf. She should be we'll
fed upon sweet, nutritious food, good
timothy hay in the winter, and allowed
to Craze upon good pasture in the sum
mer The water she drinks should be
pure. Her stable should be clean and
we'll ventilated.
These conditions, as shall show here
after, are essential to the production
Of a supply of healthy milk. She should
be kindly and gently treated, because a
COW that is frightened, excited, made
angry or overheated, cannot produce
good quality Of milk. We have all seen
babies made sick, even to commissions,
by nursing their mothers after severe
nervous excitement or great physical
exertion. She. should not be allowed to
become with calf for the same reason
that the mother who is pregnant should
Rot nurse her child, as the same ele.
ments are necessary for the formation of
the fetus in either case.
The milk should be kept in cool,
pure atmosphere, where there is no op.
portuuity for it to become contaminated
in any degree. 1t will readily absorb
impurities from the atmosphere, and
may thus be chemically changed from
very slight causes. 1t should not be
more than twelve hours old, for by that
time it will materially have changed. 1t
should not be conveyed any great dis
lance, particularly over rough roads in
wagon, as the agitations thus unavoida.
bly, produced will cause chemical chang
es, especially in hot weather. 1t should
be frequently tested for acidity, and
when found acid should be rendered
alkaline by the addition of some one of
the many alkslies'
The food of the COW can bs 30 regulat.
ed that the milk will be either alkaline
or neutral.
The experiments of Dr.. Mayer, Of Ber.
lin, are conclusive upon this point:
"(G) OF cows fed with brewers lees,
red potatoes, rye bran, and wild hay, in
i've Instances the milk was very sour, in
one very much 80.
10y 0f40 COWS fed with potSto mash,
barley husks and clover, and barley
straw, in ten examined the fresh milk
was sour, in three very sour.
'(c) From among 40 COWS fed upon
potato husks, barley husks and wild
lay, five we're examined, and in. all the
'resh milk was sour.
(d) From AZ COWS fed on potato mash,
lusks, wild hay and rye straw, out of IL
elected for examination, the fresh milk
# all was sour.
"(e) From six COWS fed by chief
,ardner on coarse beet roots, red pota-
oes, bran mash and hay, the milk was
lightly sour. 3
~ From five cows fed by a COW {
eeder on luke warm bran mash and hay
q four the fresh milk was quite neutral
n one it was decidedly alkaline.
The whole of these experiments were
made in the winter, when the COWS were |
necessarily stall fed, and confirm the
ruth of the general opinion that the !
resh milk, of stall fed COWS, is almost !
Invariably acid. DR.. Mayer does not be. I
eve that this acidity is due to the want 8
I exercise 30 much as to the unsclen-
&c manner Of feeding, and he particu- !
lrly objects to the potato mash, which +
10 considers the cause Of the acidity.
Ie has observed that it often gives rise b
D diarrhoea and Cutaneous diseases in =
hildren, which he supposes is due to \
le cows being fed on potato refuse, cab 1
age and turnips. V
"The very worst milk was that sup. b
lied by COWS fed on potato refuse from G
randy distillers, the best of stall.fed be- - =
lg obtained from the COWS of COW fat
'ners which feed on hay and grass in
alls By substituting the milk of the
tier for the former, ne was often en-
1led to arrest, at once, the intestinal
arrangement previously alluded to."- =,
oHth M
From this testimony which, l think, is II
the milk should be daily fi
sted with LamuS paper, and when found h,
be acid, the difficulty should be reme- =
ed, either-by a change in the diet OF ~
10 animal, or the addition Of such aka ol
as seems BEST adapted to neutralize gI
lis condition. w
Granted that the milk is OF standard
laliGy, 1, e., neutral or alkaline, and Jf =.
'erage richness in cream, the next step II
to make 1t as nearly like the maternal W