The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-15

third hour thereafter. If there is
 real demand between the periods
 swee4ened water should be given (dis l titled or boiled water and milk sugar) Constant overfeeding causes an abnor nal appetite, as n the adult, that is : never satisfied.
 NE definite rule can be laid down as to the amount required. The best that has, been suggested is, an ounce fol , each moscn, beginning with two
 ounces, increasing to eight ounces at
 eight months, after which full milk
 will be used Mo terate, judicious ex
 ercise now becomes important. A
 child needs exercise before it can
 walk. The freer its opportunities for
 movement the better
 The infant digestive system is not
 adapted to cereal food, always a cause
 of more or less digestive difficulty and
 expenditure of vitality, even in the
 adult Under no circumstances should
 white bread, moistened with tea, cof- I fee, milk or gravy be given to an in- fant.
 II There are many i1fant foods on the | market, composed of cereals or of cereals with milk, matted. In cases of
 milk poisoning, |or of serious digestive
 disorder resulting from unbalanced feeding, due td the inadaptability of
 cows milk, sotnething must be sub
 stituted for the milk, but it does not
 follow that because a child improves
 on the substitution of one of these
 prepared cereals it is better
 as permanent diet. 1t is also well
 to keep in mind that child is not healthy merely because it is fat. It may be failing to develop the diges- tive system normally. It may become so "fabby" that it will fall a prey to disease when the fatty degenera- tion has reached it's limit and the con- ditions are Favorable for disease
 The com1hon practice, when cows milk disagrees, is to adapt the milk by mixing it with oatmeal or barley water. This cereal tends to break up the coarse lcurd of cows milk, but 1t is in itself unsuitable, though the remedy is better than the disease; the prepared foods are better as the cereal in them is matted
 Cereal foods are digested with diff ficulty by the adult and should not be given freely to children. Coarse bread, never less than two days old, is preferable to fine white bread which a child should never be given fresh.
 At the age of one year very small quantity of pulverized fresh peanut may be taken, at noon, in water, form ing a peanut cream, and the amount very gradually increased till at two it forms half the diet. A small piece of zwiebach may now be added to the evening meal and very gradually in- creased till it becomes one-half, by weight, of the evening meal, when both should be continued.
 At three, the regular diet of child hood should be fully established. At seven in the morning drink of wa ter with lemon juice and only enough sugar to make it acceptable; at eight, apple, cantaloupe, ripe banana or oth- or fruit; nothing else, unless water is called for. At ten as much artificial buttermilk as can be taken; at noon slice or more of whole wheat or con- bination cereal bread with pulverized peanut. If the child is really hungry and healthy he will eat this.
 At three give the modified milk. At six zwiebach with honey or, if pre-. ferred, prunes only. Give water as often as called for between meals, but aothing else.
 X Let the solicitous parent be fully as- sured that this diet will develop the highest qualities of body and mind and that sickness will be avoided, if the child is properly aired, watered. exercised and amused and protected from stagnated, foul air, bad water and sudden changes of temperature or too much clothing in warm weather.
 The goat is the healthiest of all ami mals, always free from tuberculosis. It's milk is in every respect superior to cows as a substitute in infant feeding, and 1t ought to be adopted for general use, there being no req oOIdUlC ODJSCtiOA OuL 10Ch Ol AAO WIT edge of the facts.
 It is poor goat that will not give from one to four quarts of milk day, and 1t costs no more to feed than a dog, where there is a fair-sized back yard.
 Tests show that goats milk approxi- mates to the natural infants food more closely than does cows milk. Di- .gestive tests, indicate it to be three times more digestible, the curds be ing much finer and the fat far more soluble.
 Absolute cleanliness and freedom from disease is, however, the chief recommendation of goats milk.
 "Go to the hills and drink goats milk was the prescription of Hippo crates, the father of medicine, for tuberculosis We are making the search for a cure for the great white plague" a serious matter, as it should be. but the true cure is at least fully suggested in the method af the Greek physician.
 Dr. Koch the eminent discoverer of kzehe tuberculosis germ, says the bo Ivine and the human germ are not the same. However this may be, milk from a tuberculous animal is unwhole,
 some; it may furnish medium for the culture of tuberculosis. A case ! is on record in which farmer, pro. hibited from selling the milk of an in. fected herd, fed it to his hogs and | they were infected.
 1 Now comparative anatomy and
 physiology and evolution attest that the nutritive system of the pig clcse' i iy resembles mans