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supposed TO require the combined
services of a higher mathemati-
clan, an organic chemist and an
expert pharmacist.
One ancient principle, however,
still retains its supremacy. There
is no adequate substitute for
mothers milk in the first few
weeks or months Of life. Mothers
milk was made for human infants
that profound thought is not
original with me-designed for
their digestion and nutrition and
suits them more perfectly than
any other food. Every infant de-
serves and has the right to expect
it will be nourished by mothers
milk at the beginning of its life.
Nothing else gives it quite such a
good start.
But it need not be kept up as
long as we used to believe. AS /
say, we have learned so much
about artificial infant feeding that
ID is now not only thoroughly sci
entifc but very much simplified.
Manufactured Infant Foods
There are plenty of manufac-
tured infants foods that can be
purchased and except those that
have too much sugar and give the
baby a false lcok of health by
making it fat, they are all quite
healthy and proper. Some babies
have the sort Of digestion that can
handle. only one of these special
formulas.
But for practical purposes cows
milk is the best, cheapest and most
available basis for substitute in
FAINT feeding.
Human milk and cows milk
have the same chemical compost
ton, but the proportions of the es-
sential nutrients are somewhat
different. Cows milk has about
twice as much protein and about
half as much sugar as mothers
milk. The excess of protein doesn't
make any difference. Excessive
protein produces no symptoms in
infants, although the older text
books used to have long lists of the
horrors which might be caused by
too much protein in the infants
diet. An infant requires about "A
grams of protein per pound per
day and cows milk contains this in
l u ounces, so it is easy to calcu-
late the required amount.
Amount of Sugar Needed
Sugar sufficient to bring cows
milk to the same content as moth
er's milk must be added. 1t does
not make any difference what kind
of sugar you use. Children's spe-
cialists have long since given up
the idea that it has to be in form
that is in mothers and cows milk
- lactose. You can use ordinary
sugar out Of the sugar bowl and
the infant will digest it all right.
But if your conscience feels better
by having an exact imitation of
mothers milk you can get lactose
or maltese or dextrose at the gro
Gerry or drug store, or you can use
cane sugar syrup.
The fat in mothers milk is
somewhat more finely emulsified
than in cows milk, but this does
not cause any digestive disturb
snces.
A formula then for an infant Of
average weight is:
MIKE ounces.
Added carbohydrate (sugar,
Syrup, lactose, dextrose or malt
ose) ! ounce.
Water to make-1s ounces.
Since milk is deficient in Vita.
min c and D some orange juice and
cod liver oil must be given the in.
fant daily.
And the milk should be bacteri-
ologically clean-pasteurized or
boiled.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
B. M. R.:-What is a remedy
Tor itching ears?
A: One Of my readers gives a
new one: "Moisten a tablet Of as
pirin and apply with cotton to the
ear canal. Itching disappears in
stantly."