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who have laid the greateft ftrcfs on fuch appearances in infancy, 

 do not pretend to apply the information to be derived from them, 

 to the treatment of the difeafes of adults. 



The fourth general propofition, viz. " That, from morbid 

 " deviations towards coagulation or acidity in the milk of nurfes, 

 " the greater number of infantile difeafes originate, &c." I think 

 extremely doubtful, and for the following reafons : 



Woman's milk, in an healthy ftate, contains little or no 

 coagulable matter or curd. 



It fhcws lefs tendency out of the body to become acefcent 

 than many other kinds of milk. 



The appearances which have been generally fuppofed to cha- 

 radterizc its acidity do not afford fatisfadory evidence of the 

 cxiftence of fuch a morbid caufe. 



But granting fuch acidity to prevail, we arc in pofTeflion of 

 many harmlefs medicines (called abforbents) capable of neutra- 

 lizing acids, and thus forming innocent compounds. We have 

 every advantage to be wifhed in exhibiting fuch remedies. They 

 have no taftc; they may be fafely given in large quantities ; they 

 may be freely ufed both by the nurfe and infant to prevent 

 as well as to cure fuch difeafe, and notwithftanding we have 

 every day the mortification to fee infants languifh and die under 

 fuch courfes. ^ 



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