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to the same results, and I hope in a very short time the Doctor will 

 have ample opportunities of applying his present knowledge on thous- 

 ands of babies in every year that he will live. I have not the slightest 

 doubt that that will be so, for a man who wants to work and who 

 knows how to work has ample opportunities of practicing on babies 

 as long as the public insists on having sick babies. The public in- 

 sists upon having sick babies, else they would not give them so much 

 fat; they would not feed them on proprietary and patent medicines. 



What I mean to say, to the public more than to the Doctor, is 

 that I, for my part, for more than fifty years have not used any milk 

 sugar in addition to that which is contained in milk, but that I use 

 exclusively cane sugar. I have done well with it, and I am not in the 

 habit of producing enteritis by over-feding with anything and cer- 

 tainly not with milk sugar. I must say that I congratulate the Doctor 

 on his results. His experiments have been on pups, but his practice 

 will be on babies, and if he continues to keep aloof from milk sugar 

 he will do well. 



Dr. Helmholz: I greatly appreciate Dr. Jacobi's remarks, especially 

 as he was perhaps the first to call attention to the fact that excess of 

 milk sugar is very harmful. 



