The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-12
HOME HEALTH CLUE
tEd'fed by Dr. David IT. .>eedrr, La
 pOr:e, Ind.l

FEEDING THE BABIES-One of the principals reasons for having a nome Is to have a family. The great est urge of all animal life, includ- Ing mankind, is the sex urge The perpetuation of the species is the one greatest desire of US all There are causes of extremely selfish COIL pies that avoid the responsibilities of parenthood and seek to expend all of their time and talents in lay- ing up treasure for the purpose of gratifying their own lust, either for personal indulgence or the mere lust for money, fine clothes and. surround ingS
 The doctors finally get at the true inward life of such people and he finds it barren indeed The vain re- grets of childless couples are pittfuI indeed, but the thing we are most interested in just now is the proper care and feeding of the babies that we find in the happy homes where they have been joyously weIeomed There are just two ways of feed ing babies. One is the natural way of drawing it's food from the mann mary glands of the human breasts, preferably it's mothers, although in some cases the supply from the wet nurse is better than the milk from it's own mother.
 The other way is an artificia1Iy pre- pared milk diet The nearest approach to natural mothers milk that can be had from animals Is the milk of the ass or mares milk. Goats milk is more like that of the mother than the milk of a COW. In our study of the subject, however, we must take into consideration conditions as they are. The milk of the ass or the mare are both practically out of the ques- ton. Goats milk is not so difficult to obtain for residents of the coun- try or small town districts, but the cows milk may be modified to such an extent that 1t is practically the same as human milk. In some cases it is both safe and wise to use the advertised products of old and well established baby food manufacturers in preparing the mod flied milk. In some of these the Lie big formula, as recognized by the Pharmacopeia, is best suited to the | condition of the infant, but in others the matted milk preparations give the most satisfactory results.
 For the perfectly normal and heal | thy infant, it is not necessary to pur- chase the advertised preparations as | the modification of cows milk can | be made without them. Cows milk | contains more than double the amount | of protein of womal,s milk, which is | far and away too much It contains l a third less sugar which is too lit | tie. The quantity of fat is about the same but the character of the fatty 1 globules in the milk of the COW are 1 large and coarse while in the milk l of a woman they are small and fine. I The milk of woman has about one per cent of a1buminoids while that of the | SOW has about per cent which is | just the thing with which to build 1 a great big calf, but it will not do for a human baby. In order to reduce | the amount d a1bumoids to the pro per amount by the addition of water, we still further reduce the sugar which Is already deficient and we l also thereby reduce the proportion of fat by Just the amount of wat CT.
 In order, therefore. to make the 1 cows milk as near like the mothers 8 milk as possible, we must take that