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enough for infant feeding; very little of it contains less than 

 half a million bacteria per cubic centimeter and much of it 

 many millions plus the toxines. The milk made under the su- 

 pervision of a Medical Milk Commission, if the system is prop- 

 erly applied, would be clean enough to use without cleaning it 

 by heat. As a matter of fact, it is not always clean enough to 

 use raw for all purposes for which milk is required. 



I have been misrepresented here by a speaker to-day con- 

 cerning my use of Certified Milk. As the originator of the 

 scheme for getting Certified Milk, I wish to say that it was 

 my purpose to get milk clean enough to use raw but as a phy- 

 sician, with many medical problems to solve with milk, I have 

 the right to do anything I choose with milk after I get it. The 

 use of milk by a physician in a sick-room or in the hospital or 

 in the nursery is outside the sphere of this discussion. As a 

 physician, I may peptonize, sterilize or boil milk if it seems 

 best. 



As the so-called father of Certified Milk, I represent the 

 principle of cleanliness enforced in the dairy, and the princi- 

 ple of caution and care enforced in the transportation and in 

 the delivery of the milk, so that, as it comes to us, it has had 

 nothing done to it which will impair its nutritive value or its 

 keeping qualities. It has been said that I use pasteurized milk 

 to feed my own children. There is one of my children here to- 

 night who was brought up on raw Certified Milk. I have an- 

 other in college who was brought up on raw certified milk and 

 she is of a physical type of which I am proud. 



I want to say that I do not believe in cooking milk if I can 

 get milk clean enough to use raw. (Applause.) But if I have 

 a patient and I find that it is necessary to boil milk, even if it is 

 Certified, I have a right to do it. My function, as a physi- 

 cian, is to get that patient well. If, in my judgment, the milk 

 is better cooked, as it is in Amsterdam, Berlin and Budapest, 

 I think I have a right to do it, but my ideal is far above such 

 methods. 



There are two or three general functions of the Medical 

 Milk Commission : First it is recognized historically and log- 

 ically and should become the leader in milk crusades. Its 

 second function is to arouse interest both in the ranks of the 

 medical profession and on the part of the public, concerning 



