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milk. Marked and probably important differences were observed 

 in the salts of the ash as compared with the ash of both cow's 

 milk and human milk. 



8. Extensive study of the use of goat's milk in infant feeding 

 by Doctors Sherman and Lohnes, of Buffalo, showed that the 

 curds of goat's milk when returned from the stomach were 

 smaller and more flocculent than those of cow's milk. From the 

 determination of the combined hydrochloric acid in the returned 

 food, the authors conclude that the cow's milk had a greater 

 stimulating effect on the stomach than goat's milk. The absorp- 

 tion of the food and gain in weight in comparing the two milks 

 were indefinite for several reasons. The babies tolerated equally 

 well similar amounts of goat's milk and cow's milk when used 

 with the same diluents. The younger the child, the more the evi- 

 dence pointed toward a greater gain on goat's milk. 



9. Goat's milk was supplied to. 18 cases of children that were 

 not thriving on any other food that had been tried. In 17 cases 

 a satisfactory state of nutrition was established through the use 

 of goat's milk, the beneficial results in some instances being very 

 marked. With certain of these children their situation was re- 

 garded as serious, and their restoration to a satisfactory nutri- 

 tional condition was good evidence that goat's milk is often a 

 very desirable resort for infant feeding. 



