Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-17
MILK DIET.
A Most Valuable Aliment-HOw
1t May Be Used.

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N. Y Herald.
An English physician, DR.. Duck
worth, of the Royal College OF Physi-
clans, has recently put forth an impor-
tant paper on the insufficient use OF
milk as a diet, and shows the serious ef-
feet of the neglect of this indispensable
nutrient on national health. His warn
ing is most timely in an age when so
many artificial viands tend to destroy
the appetite for natures simple and
normal food supply. An eminent
physlologist has pointed out that while
"all other matters appropriated by AMI
mails as food exist for themselves or Tor
the use of the vegetable or animal OF
which they form a constituent part,
is designed and prepared by nature ex.
pressly as food, and is the only material
throughout the range OF organization
that is 80 prepared" Pure milk iii
sufficient quantity is as necessary for
the body as pure air, but, as DIR. Duck
worth shows, its use even among those
who can afford to buy it, has go de.
creased even in the rural districts OF
Great Britain rs to amoant to milk
starvation. The minimum quantity re-
uuired for the preservation OF health, he
calculates, is five quarts per diem to
family of ten, and not less than 8 quart
daily to each child. "If this, or any
thing approaching this, were the rule
instead OF the exception" he is conf
dent that the disease OF 'rickets, in its
manifold phases, would be completely
banished from this country, and much
higher standard of health and robust
ness would unquestionably prevail"
II this conclusion holds at all true
for Great Britain it will hold much
more so for the United States The
humidity OF the British Isles insures
comparatively equable climate, which
makes few heavy drains on the human
system, while in America, especially in
the West and Northwest, the ceaseless
and extreme alterations OF tempera-
ture and the aridity of the atmosphere,
which produces great waste OF the body
by evaporation, make heavy demands
upon its store OF energy. That store
can only be kept by good nutrition,
which milk, combining as it does, the
four great staminal principles of hu.
man alIment, is so admirably fitted to
supply. The prejudice which some en-
terrain against it, or fancy that it dis.
agrees with them, may be removed in
many cases by adding to the milk little
carbonate of soda or of lime water, which
will enhance its digestibility, and when
drank for health purposes in large guam
titles it is rectified by adding little
pepsin. There can be no question that
large number of men and women, in
clined to strumuous and scrofulous
habit, arHmia, catarrh and comsump-
ton would be saved from premature de-
crepitude or wasting disease by resort
ing to a generous milk diet. The in
creasing amount OF food adulteration,
through the multiplication of glucose
and oleomargarine factories, ought to
have the effect OF popuiarizing a dietetic
article which nature has provided and
which cannot be tempered with with
out exposing the fraud to easy detection.
Bone and sinew will not make nation,
but the grave nutritional loss growing
out OF the disuse OF this elementary arti-
Gle Of food will ultimately make hardy
race OF nation of dwaris, and it is we'll
known that the hardest race on the
globe, the Kirghiz, Of Central Asia,
under the most terrible climatic ex-
tremcs, have little else to live on but
the milk of their herbs.