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CHAPTER VI. APPENDIX. 



PASTEURIZING OR STERILIZING AT HOME. 



Although I have explained the necessity of getting this 

 work as near milking time as possible, there are conditions 

 where people with a baby might desire to thus treat the milk 

 after buying it in the city. Yet this should only be done ac- 

 cording to the advice of the doctor, because some times it may 

 be better to use unpasteurized milk. It is true late experi- 

 ments in Italy seem to indicate that we have laid too much 

 stress on the supposed decrease in digestibility and it is also 

 true that for the great masses who cannot afford to pay fancy 

 prices (10 or 12c per quart) for so-called sanitary milk, which 

 in reality simply means clean milk from healthy cows, the safe- 

 guard of sterilizing or pasteurizing should not be neglected by 

 the careful mother. 



Arnold's Family Sterilizer or Pasteurizer is 

 shown in Fig. 118, is recommended by many 

 physicians and is especially adapted for hand- 

 ling small bottles. If the hood is left on, a 

 JlHUl temperature of 212 may be obtained, while 

 I nPSJJI for Beating to 150 or 170 it may be left off. 

 ' JJBB It may be bought from dealers in dairy and 

 milk men's supplies or from druggists. 



City people who do not know whence their 

 milk comes may not even find pasteurizing 

 sufficient and Dr. A. Stutzer in his pamphlet 

 on children's milk recommends the following additional pre- 

 caution : 



Fig. 118. 



