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possible were : — 15 fluid ounces of skimmed cow's milk,onc and a half 

 ounce by weight of wheaten flour, and 22grains of carbonate of potash 

 boiled togetlier as directed. In three ounces of cold water 1| ounce 

 of malt-flour was mixed, and added to the milk-flour pap when re- 

 moved from the fire. The latter was of course then quite pasty, but 

 at the end of the half hour's malting was sweet and thin. I am confi- 

 dent in the verity of Liebig's statement that this food will prove 

 excellent for the nourishment of 5'oung infants, and that "children 

 thrived perfectly well upon it, and many a petty suffering disappeared 

 after some weets' use of the soup." In Munich the apothecaries of 

 the town have been induced by the most renowned of its physicians 

 to keep for sale a mixture of themalt-flour,andbi-carbonateof potash, 

 milk and wheat flour being supposed to be in every house. 



It is the^ride of modern science that its researches are made to 

 have a practical application to the welfare of man. I shall not 

 therefore deem it necessary to apologise for introducing so homely a 

 subject into the discussions of the " Physicial Section of the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania." Whatever tends to benefit our common 

 humanity, and may eventuate in the saving of many lives, will 

 always hold the first place in my philosophy. How necessary such 

 like information is, may be easily learned by enquiring from the 

 Statist how many children perish, principally from mismanagement, 

 before attaining the age of five years. In many places in England 

 one-half of those born do so, and even in this admirably situated 

 city, with its most propitious climate, out of about 920 annual births, 

 on the last seven years' average, 138 infants under one year old 

 annually perish, and 87 more between one and five years old. 

 Whatever exertions may conduce to lessen this, generally remediable, 

 mortality, is true philanthropy, and the subject is not unworthy of 

 the best exertions of the most ardent, profoimd, and erJightened 

 philosophy. 



