Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-16
Physician Describes Cases in Which Treated
Fluid Produced Disease in Children.
TREATMENT CAUSE
Infants Gain Rapidly When Devitalized Food Is Stopped
and Fresh Milk and Fruit Are the Dietary.

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who emphaticay opposed the pending ordinance povd
for the compulsory of milk In his extern
sve practice he has frequently found the of pstezd milk
the feeding young children be the nfane
Fea instructor disease of children Columbia
University the chief of that department the Vanderbilt Clinic
and the assistant attending physician the Babies Hospital He
fellow of the Academy of Medicine and of the American
Pedarc Society.
"For infant feeding said Dr. La Fetra where the mother
milk available there is of nothing equal to Clean
milk from healthy and produced under sanitary cond
this milk to be properly modified tor the
children"
Some bad effects pasteurized milk diet for babies
atngy shown prepared by Dr. La Fetra for pub
LEGATION the American Journal of the Medical Sciences the
subject "nfante Scurv In that Dr. La Fera said
Undoubtedly scurvy has infants for
sufficiently frequent careful
study until decades During period very
by those who afford it. of dried proprietary infant
foods of erized milk has greatly increased the number Of
such cases..
ONE OF MANY CASES.
many illustrative cited by the physician that
of Alice j. eight and onea months old This child had been
birth modified milk made and sterlized in abor
tory When months old the baby developed clear
scurvy Three weeks to visit said Dr. La Fera
prominent orthopaedc her and made that dagno
Sis He advised disseminating the of barley water and subst
tung paeurizaon OF the milk for the sterilization For the week
preceding my visit the baby had been getting the milk
meantime being both peponized and pasteurized
describing shocking condition of the child he
saw her. Dr. La Fetra says question
diagnosis but only regard the treatment Pasteurzation OF
stopped orange and beef juice ordered to be
the tenderness less and week the swelling
ceptby smaller the baby using her legs freely She six
weighs foyx pounds has perfect of her legs and
is splendid specimen OF health
Another case which distinctly labeled "Deve
oped paseurized milk that of James McC, eight and
half months old He had been healthy Child Dr. La
from early infancy modified milk from well known
laboratory laboratory directed the feeding and changed the
necessary, told Moreover, learned that the
The formula being taken
per SO per sugar proteids
teurzed."
BABY'S CONDITION DISTRESSING
This babys condition. the physician found it. distress
ing whatever of the lower limbs and the mother
thought child paralysis The dcon
tinued the narrative goes land the formula 3 fat
per sugar poteds ordered also
Juice three times day PURGE of potatoes
dietary later In four weeks the baby had gained three
pounds and complete recovery ensued
81" that in this case, said DR.. lie Fetra "the
milk simply pasteuzed heated I57 degrees Fahen
he twenty and starchy food had been ued
Under head of TREATMENT" DR.. La Fea paper said
THE removed We stop the dvazed
food and give fresh milk fruit juice beef egg abu
men PURGE potato according the chd desic capacity
To discontinue sophisticated food often all that
We shall of infant crvy until physicians we'll
laiy realize that heating boiling milk physiology
cal but therapeutic measure"