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some of these embalmed milks. A friend of mine in Massachusetts had 

 a thriving child and circumstances compelled it to be placed at about 

 six or seven months of age upon milkman's milk. He wrote to me 

 and I told him (he was in a city near Boston) to go around among 

 the milkmen in that vicinity, visit their stables, tell them what he 

 wanted, pick out a cleanly stable, a cleanly man and offer him a special 

 price for milk for the child. He did so, and picked out a man who 

 guaranteed pure milk, showed him the stable, and that was clean, and the 

 child was put upon the milk. The child seemed to do well for about a 

 week, and then I got word the babe was having a bad spell of indiges- 

 tion. The father sent me a specimen of the milk, and that milk kept in 

 the laboratory where the temperature was 90 degrees, kept five days 

 without souring. If that child had been continued on that milk tor a 

 month she would have been in her grave to-day instead of being a 

 well, healthy child. There is an infant experiment that I can swear to 

 absolutely; I know to the very bottom of the fact. I told that to my 

 class in college, and I believe a thing of that kind should always be 

 made public. Those things are not God-sent; they come from way 

 down below. 



Mr. Adams. — The words "God-sent" in this connection were used 

 ironically. I am against the whole business from top to bottom. A 

 friend of mine, a doctor who was one of the most skillful physicians in 

 Madison, had a child who was being brought up on a bottle, as most 

 babies are now, that became sick and the doctor could not make up 

 his mind what the trouble was. The child grew worse and worse and 

 finally he took a sample of the milk and brought it to my office, and 

 I found that it contained formaldehyde. The milk was changed and the 

 child recovered in a week. A gentleman slapped me on my back on 

 the street one day and said: "I want to shake hands with you." I said: 

 "What's the matter with me?" He said: "Nothing the matter with you; 

 you saved the life of my child." I said: "How was it?" He said: 

 "You arrested my milkman; I had a sick baby, and it got well on the 

 change." There is a tendency to put preservatives in milk, and that 

 ought not to be permitted in any State in the Union. 



Mr. Hitchcock. — If there is no further discussion of this paper, I 

 would like to say that the Committee on Resolutions is prepared to 

 report. 



President Bruce. — We will listen to the report of the Committee on 

 Resolutions. 



Mr. Hitchcock. — The Committee on Resolutions as appointed were 

 Mr. Adams, Mr. Vail and myself. The committee have been unable to 

 confer with Mr. Vail. If any thing in this report is contrary to his un- 

 derstanding he will now have a chance to say so. 



