Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-08

With the comparative analysis of the
two miiks ss basis. various experiments
lave been made as TO what TO add TO
cows milk TO make i similar 10 human
mI!k. and hY what method can it oe pre-
served from the time of preparation TO
the time of feeding.
Josh Billings says, You always think
the fellow is smartest who agrees with
you" l will, therefore, select from vars
ious authorities such ideas as are, in nv
opinion. The ''sm.rrest.' aua put tnen
together, because they agree with my own
SIS to the best general infant food, and the
most reliable way of preserving it from
changes.
Although food, as now prepared, may
le kept sweet FOR s. week q mere, il is
not best to prepare it for more than
twenty-four hours, except in case of
travelling, when it will not be possible 10
obtain reliable milk or prepare it. 1t is
not well to rely upon milkman for a
supply for this purpose, for tie churuing
il receives by being hauled about spoils
1t. and where so many kinds of milk are
| being handled they are liable to become
mixed unintentionslly.
The first thing TO do is to get a good.
healthy COW, one that is fed on nutritious
| food. and not OF glucose>refuse or swill
Take the milk as it comes from the COW,
| Immediately after milking, so that no
| change has time TO take place. Add TO
one part OF it two parts of barley water,
| prepared by boiling four teaspoonfuls of
freshly ground pearl barley, with little
common salt in pint of water, for if
teen minutes. Add to this about four
teaspoonfuls of sugar of milk, and put it
| into plain feeding bottles. This proper,
| ton is intended for young infant, there
fore the qusntity to be put into each
bottle should be about two ounces. and
twelve bottles should be prepared each
day. These bottles should then be stop.
| pered with common cotton, and placed in
an Arnold sterilizer, and steamed from
three-fourths of an hour to an hour.
Then remove the bottles to a shaded
place, where they are out of the way. and
let them cool gradually. When you de-
sire TO use one, remove the cotton and
| throw 1t away, add tesspoonfui of lime
water, set it in q vessel OF warm water
until 1t is heated to q temperature OF 80 >
TO 100 - place common nipple over the
mouth of the bottle, and let the baby
nurse IL all II III pleases.
After the baby is through nursing,
wash the nipple IN a solution of carbonate
| OF soda, and put it into cup of solution
OF borax Of boracic acid, and let it soak
until you want to use ii again. when i,
should be dipped in a solution of bicar-
Donate of soda. Don't scald it, for tha,
Will spoil the rubber.
The bottle should also be Immediately
well washed with a solution of carbonate
of soda, and scslded. Then fill it with
hot water to which has been added tea,
spoonful of powered borax, or borac.C
acid, and allow it to stand until the time
for using again, when it should be rinsed
out with bicarbouate of soda water.
70 cases of obstinate constipation ost,
meal water should be substituted for bar
ley water, and if the cow be a JERSEY
think areduction of one-third the quantity
of milk should be made. have no,
noticed an analysis of the milk of jersey
cow, but know from experience that 4
less proportionate quantity should be
used. for it contains much more fat tbsr
the milk of common cow.
In this paper l have endeavored &c
mention briefly the little details which
| 10y oppoot W 'hc iucA peiIcnceu as mat
tiers OF trifiing Importance. such rs the
care Of the nipples, the bottles and so on
but L cannot impress upon you toe
strongly the importance of their stricr
observance. / have no doubt many OF
you have seen babies live and do wei
without such care. but it won't do &c
reason from that fact that such rigid reg
ulations are unnecessary. TWEEN, five
years ago its was theexception for bottle
fed baby in city to live. Now it is theex
ception, if FED in accordance with strict
regulations. for the baby to die. Of
course referto gastro-iptestinsl diseases