Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-04
MeiIin's Food.

The ideal food for infancy is that which
nature provides. Civilized life, especially
in the great cities, has become so harsh,
onerous and artificial that it affects even
the little child and its mother. The hearty
peasant wife nurses her babe into vigor-
Gus childhood. The refined and cultured
woman Is unequal to the task, and falls
back upon the skill Of the physician or the
science OF the chemist to preserve the life
Of ner offspring. This is the chief cause
OF that terrible fact 10 social life, infant
mortality. Two-thirds of the baby deaths
occur from hamilton, or the diseases to
which it gives rise. The children of the
first enjoy the probability of life, health
and robust strength; those of the second
have not an even chance between lite and
death; the latter, when they live. are gene
rally puny through babyhoOd and become
the inv3lids, while the former grow into
tue bone and sinew of the land. Incom-
plete infantile nutrition annually costs
the country halt million lives and mil
lions OF dollars. To TINS subject the great
scientists of the century turned their at
tentiou at an early date. The problem
OF making perfect infants food re-
manned unsOlyed until Liebig, the great
organic chemist OF the aye, investigated
the matter in all its relations. He de-
monstral ed that the best substitute tor
normal human milk was not the milk OF
any animal, but Il combination of animal
milk with the elements of those grains
which are used by the human system IN
repairing waste. building tissue, and gen.
Grating beat. We now know that certain
preparations OF cereals are best adapted
for certain morbid conditions of the infan-
tile system, and that others are of thera-
peutic value in specific diseases. We
also know what is the best general type
OF food for little folks. Many articles in
the market approach this type, but that
which comes nearest is Melliu's Food. 1t
contains no starch, cellulOse, gum. bran
or hgnOse, and so resembles natural milk
Its ingredients are fat, maltese, albu-
minOids, and natural trace OF alkali. 1t
is. therefore, easily digested. palatable
and wholesome, Combined with cows
milk and water, il is 80 similar to ideal
human milk that the difference Is infni-
tesimal. What difference there is favors
the artificial food. 1t is the same at all
times and places. Human milk is in
tluenced notably by the emotions.
Fear, jealousy, sorrow and rage in the
young mother have from time immemorial
iniurIously affected the child, and in
many cases disastrOusly. But wheat and
barley pass from the waving stalk TO the
white food OF the manufactures, and
thence into the rosy cheek and chubby
limbs OF the cnllu, WltnOut changing or
losing in the least their liie-giying power.
To-day all chemists and physicians sub
scribe to these views and employ this food
in their own homes and with those VINO
consult them professionally. For general
use, for the sick and delicate as well az
the strong and hearty child, Mellln's
Food is unrivaled. In meeting every
want and accomplishing all 1t promises,
it is the most precious gift that the house,
Cholera infantum is unbeard OF in families
whose children are entirely fed on Mellin's
Food. Consumption, convalescents from
diphtheria. low fevers and all wasting dis
eases find this eminent, predigested food
most nourishing and curative.