Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-28
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BAD TIMES FOR BABIES.
Thousands of Packages of Lacta-
 ted Food Prescribed.

Thousands of Packages of Lacta-
 ted Food Prescribed.
 More than a fifth of all the babies born in Massachusetts, says the Boston Herald, die before they have lived year. And the last report of the State board of health shows that two-thirds of these little unfortunates die in the summer months.
 The Herald continues
 Cholera infantum is, of course, the most destructive cause. The infants stomach goes back on him. Frequently the natural food is not nutritious. That is one reason that lactated food is used. Thousands of packages are prescribed every year at this season by physicians who say that the food is pleasant to taste, and is easily digested and assimilated. It is what they term a pre-digested food, and they consider it especially valuable in all weak conditions of the digestive organs, not only for in- fants, but for older invalids.
 A well known physician said yesterday that when cholera infantum threatened, laCUAU6u IOOo WbS OlUou Gue oAlJ 1culOoJs
 "And the beauty of it is," he said, " for twenty-five cents mother can buy a package that contains enough to make ten pints of cooked food.
 Many an infant whose mother has been sickly has thrived upon this lactated food, for it contains the same ingredients as mothers milk, and is as pure and healthful as the air among the Vermont hills, where it is made. And many a mo- ther, too, has been strengthened by eat ing g;It. it. Wall. s- D;o,.ua,o,, co,,non ot Burlington, who put up the food, have probably received more heartful letters from delighted mothers whose babes the food has benefited than one could read in month hundreds of photographs ot little ones have been sent to the company by grateful parents.
 "And these photographs represent the joys of every kind of happy home. Aris tocratic patients of the famous Dr. Agnew of Philadelphia have sent the pictures ot their babes in the same mail that has brought the testimonials of the poor peo pie who have had their little ones spared to them"
 Dr. Agnew is only one of the many emi- nent physicians, says the Herald, who have publicly recommended the use o1 lactated food.
 In the few years since it became known they say, it has saved the lives of many babes.
 ''The explanation of it's great success, say the makers, 'is that in it's compo sition natures food for babies has beer the model. Science cannot improve upo, nature.
 "The principal element of woman's mill is sugar of milk. This is the basis of lac tated food. With it is combined the nu tritious elements of the great cereals wheat and barley, so prepared as to b readily digested and assimilatsd. The ad dition of the salts found in mothers mill makes lactated food a perfect substitute Many mothers write that nothing els would agree with their children"
 Editor Ingalls, of Lynn writes:
 My boys food did not agree with hin and he had collie most of the time. Blu as soon as we fed him lactated food ther was a change for the better the collie lef him, and he commenced to grow fat good, solid fesh''
 The better the food, says the Herald the better the baby.