Wells, Richardson & Co's Lactated Food for Infants and Invalids
date: label: date made
content: 1879-1901
label: date made
content: 1884-1901
name: label: maker
content: Wells, Richardson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Square orange lithographed metal can with dark orange print and designs of babies, children, swans, bridges, ponds, etc. Information in English and German. Pry-off metal cap on top. Tin manufacturer label: Somers Bros. Brooklyn, N.Y. Pat. Apr. 29,1879.
label: Description
content: Text on can: "Containing the most important elements of mothers milk with the nutritive principles of the cereal grains." "Price 50 cents." "Sugar of Milk is the basis of lactated Food. Medical authorities agree as to the great value of this article, especially in cases of irritability of the stomach and bowels, either in infants or adults. With the sugar of milk is combined the pure gluten of wheat and the nutritious elements of barley and oats, which have been thoroughly cooked by steam heat. So combined Lactated food is the most perfect nutritive ever devised for infants, invalids and dyspeptics. It forms, with the fluids of the stomach, a light, friable, easily digested coagulum, unlike the hard coagulum of cow's milk, but very similar to that of human milk."
label: Description
content: According to an early History of Chittenden County, Vermont, Wells, Richardson and Company was established in 1872, having taken over the wholesale drug business of Henry & Co. Advertisements stated that the company began marketing Lactated Food in 1884. The product was based on "sugar of milk," or lactose, derived from cow's milk. The company also produced a popular butter color, household dyes, and proprietary medicines. Their products were widely advertised through their printed almanacs, booklets, and trade cards. Wells, Richardson was sold at the end of 1919, and it appears that their Lactated Food also disappeared at about this time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Burlington
topic: label: associated subject
content: Infant Feeding
label: associated subject
content: Infant Nutrition
label: associated subject
content: Infant Care
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.1472
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1472
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Infant And Invalid Food
label: Other Terms
content: Infant And Invalid Food; Nutritional Products
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.6 cm x 7.1 cm x 7.1 cm; 3 3/4 in x 2 13/16 in x 2 13/16 in