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follows shows that this is far from being the case. It also demonstrates 

 the economy in buying cow's milk instead of proprietary baby foods, as 

 far as the food value in calories per pound is concerned : 



Table IV. 

 $0.31 worth of cow's milk is equal in food value to 



$0.44 worth of Allenbury's Malted No. 3; 

 .66 worth of Ridge's Food; 

 . 78 worth of Nestle's Food ; 

 .82 worth of Sunbright's Baby Food; 



1.02 worth of Imperial Granum ; 



1.03 worth of Horlick's Malted Milk; 

 1.05 worth of Carnick's Food; 



1.11 worth of Lactated Food; 



1.12 worth of Elgin's Meadow Malted Milk; 



1.13 worth of Borden's Malted Milk; 

 1.20 worth of Fessenden's Food; 



1 . 24 worth of Warapole's Food ; 

 1.28 worth of Eskay's Food; 

 1.31 worth of Benger Pood; 

 2 . 09 worth of Mellin's Food. 



The food value in calories per pound is obtained by multiplying the 

 sum of the per cents of carbohydrates and protein by 18.6. To this prod- 

 uct add the product of the per cent of fat multiplied by 42.2. 



Holt in "Diseases of Infancy and Childhood," p. 243, quotes the follow- 

 ing table with reference to occurrence of infantile scurvy: 



Previous Food. 



Breast milk 12 cases, alone in 10 



Raw row's milk 5 cases, alone in 4 



Pasteurized milk 20 cases, alone in 16 



Condensed milk 60 cases, alone in 32 



Sterilized milk 107 cases, alone in 68 



Proprietary infant's foods / 214 



The translator in the preface of Pierre Budin's French book, "The 

 Nursling," says in regard to this table quoted: "The disease (infantile 

 scurvy) may thus arise under all forms of feeding. I do not know of any 

 recorded case of infantile scurvy arising from sterilized milk where 

 systematic analysis showed the milk to have been consistently of good 

 quality. It is the poverty of the milk and not its sterilization which 

 causes the disease. In sterilized milk alone is safety, and it must be 

 the basis of all artificial feeding. The importance of the quality of 

 milk which is to serve as a food for infants need hardly be emphasized. 

 But besides the purity and quality, the amount of the infant's daily diet 

 must be supervised. The purest of milks, the sterile supply which flows 

 from a m.other's breast, given in excess, may cause fatal digestive 

 troubles. Each medical man ought to regulate the feeding of all infants 

 born under his charge. His calling demands it as a duty, his humanity 

 as a right. Every practitioner should be a center for the protection of 

 infant life." 



I mention this quotation from Professor Budin's book because in 

 America there is a great deal of prejudice against sterilized milk, for it 

 is thought to give rise to infantile scurvy. The two authorities in France, 

 Budin and Dufour, have used sterilized milk in infant feeding for many 

 years, have reared innumerable infants on it, and yet they have not had a 

 single case of infantile scurvy. Doctor Pierre Budin towers far above 



