The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
MILK As 4 CURATIVE AGENT.
Suggestions with Regard the Care of II and
the Value OF Different Kinds.
Harpers Weekly.

i'll had to choose milk for "A delicate
invalid, there are many things | should
want to know which in all probability
the "honest" dairyman would deem i'm
pertinent. Let me couch my queries in
the poltest language am master of.
| should want to know how the COW
was housed and fed, and even bedded,
and how often she was MIXED and |
would like also to see her ladyship, so
that | might guess about her age and
condition. But here is something that
the dairyman has nothing to do with.
lie may deliver the milk at the door in
the hands of your immaculae maid, rich
and pure and sweet, and not half an hour
drawn from the COW. The milkman may
look like duke in disguise; both pail
measure may seem made of polished sill
yer, and the former may have hinges of
gold but having received it, where does
your servant place it? In scullery or
larder? Surely net. If she does, hint to
her that the milk has power to absorb
obnoxious gases and eiiiuvia from the air
around it, and do not yourself forget that
the purest butter that ever was made
NAV become tainted and poisoned in
one short hour by Objectionable sur
roundings.
Comes now the question of the digest
ibilty of milk.
A glance at the table of the composition
of cows ass's and goats milk would nat
urally convey the impression that that
of the goat is the richest. This is so, but
il is on that account the more difficult of
assimilation. 1t cannot, therefore, be rec
ommended for the very delicate, but it is
a grand adjunct to the diet of those who
are Just beginning to regain strength after
long. severe illness. A residence at the
seaside to induce a healthy appetite, and
a diet consisting largely of goats milk,
would restore many a convalescent far
more speedily to health without the aid
of drugs, than anything ] know of.
A course of goats milk may often be
taken with advantage in the autumn by
those who suffer much from cold during
the winter months, but who do not care
to take cod liver oil. The extract of malt
would 90 well with it rs tonic adjunct.
The milk ought to be taken on the prin-
ciple of little and often, and not drunk
Wholesale.
Ass's milk contains larger proportion
of water, more lactine, and less oil and
casein. This is the reason it is so easily
assimilated, and is so often prescribed by
the physician for patients who have del
icate digestions. II It's possible that it may
be of somewhat too laxative nature for
some but this is easily corrected.
Cows milk most invalids can take. 1t
is often an advantage to give it in con-
junction with a little aerated water and
in cases where it has tendency TO sour
or disagree with the stomach, it should
he mixed with lite lime-water. 1t should
he remembered however, that lime-water
must not be taken for any length of time
without intermission, or evil results may
follow, Cream, if taken fresh in the
morning. and can be well borne-which
II usually can-is an excellent tonic and
restorative. 1t should be taken with
breakfast, and the more fresh it is, and
the more pure and good the milk from
which il has ben taken, the better Will
he the result. The cream of goats milk
| Is even better than that of the COW.
skim milk is very nutritious, but, OF
course. being deprived Of large portion
of its cream, il is not calculated to sustain
the animal heat so well.
1t is not every invalid who cas take
buttermilk. but il has, nevertheless, much
10 recommend it as cooling nutrltiye
summer drink. almost claim for it tonic
properties; however, there is no doubt
tbat taken an hour or two BEFORE the or
binary meals of the day, when feeling
of emptiness and fatigue is experience; Gee
it is Of grert service. The delicate shouiu
have il as fresh as possible.
Milk. talking physiologically, is demul-
cent. and therefore of great service in
many cases of cough and lung irritation,
as well as in dyspepsia. ] need hardly
saw word about the virtue of milk as
medicine for those suffering IRON CON
sumption. In this case it ought to pc ,.
drunk warm from the COW it is certain
then to be unadulterated. Too much Oil