Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-15

the oil enema and the use Of laxative
gruels all offer simple natural relief,
why experiment with drugs and run
the risk of undesirable side effects
Satisfied With the Result.
After an experience of nine months
without a single instance or sign OF
any arrangement Of digestion, we are
satisfied with the result Of our strict
adherence to pure. clean. modified
milk for that little part OF the diet
that seemed necessary to supplement
the nourishment given by the mother
Now the boy is taking two small bot
ties of six ounces each per day in
stead of one, in order that this slight
gain Of weight may be continued. At
nine months and p pounds weight,
with eight teeth painlessly acquired,
there Is not much to be desired In the
way of additional nourishment or
changed procedur~.
The small quantity Of cows milk
which is given is supplied by a dealer
who takes special care Of a herd par
tiCularly for infants use, and sur
rounds II with every sanitary preCau-
ton known to science. Even with all
this, l shall feel an additional respou-
sibility as the warm weather APP
proaChes, to the extent. perhaps. of an
additional pasteuriZation, until toward
the end of the merry month Of May
we are established on the farm with
a COW under our own specific personal
supervision, from which the milk. still
warm. may be conveyed TO the Their
mos bottle and kept at the tempera-
ture Of the blood until consumed.
This latter point is too often for
gotten by parents MIX which is too
cold or too hot is equally dangerous.
BY means OF a vacuum nursing bottle
II should be kept constantly az 80
degrees Fahrenheit during its con-
sumption. Cold milk, as well as hot,
is a certain injury 10 the tender lin
ings Of the child's stomach
Substitutes for Milk.
"The question may be asked. What
is to be done when milk fit for con-
sumption can not be obtainedg This
Is. indeed, a hard situation. In great
country Ike this. think Of a locality,
save in the depths OF a dark city,
where such a condition could prevail!
My first thought, II il were wholly I'm
possible to obtain fresh milk. would
be TO use a high grade of condensed
milk. as fresh as possible That IS
not always easy 10 recognize, because,
strange to say, the makers Of con-
densed milk do not yet stamp upon
the package the date OF packing
Fresh dried milk may also be secured
in conditions described above. but this
also should be reasonably fresh.
Next might be suggested those
preparations which are made partly
OF milk, and call for the addition IF
water only The infants foods
which are 10 be used I'm milk, presup-
pose the obtaining Of fresh milk, in
V hich case their own use is "A work of
supererogatiOn. The next most suit
able supply Of infants foods would
be the Improperly termed matted
milks, which are not. matted milks.
but mixtures Of milk with matted
wheat OF barley. These matted miiks
contain considerable quantities Of
deXtrtne, which can not be regarded as
desirable in infant foods. They con-
tain little OF no starch, the starch
having been all converted by the malt
into maltese or deXtrine. These prep
arations can not possibly have any
value over fresh milk, when that can
be obtained.
Infant foods which contain raw
starch and raw protein other than
that Of milk, or any other form or
different from that of
the natural food Of the child, I should
use only when starvation threatened
as the alternative.
A Case for the Doctors.
The question may now be asked.
What would you do. IL pure. modi-
fled milk We're not tolerated by the
chilG- This is O question for YOU
20 ask your physician because on.s
the stomach Of an abnormally CON
stitutad child viii fail to tolerate the
mothers milk if II is sound. or cows
milk If a. is properly modified. ".
have here 90 deal with the question
Of diseases. and my readers already