fed; that is, the amount of proteid is lacking in sufficient quantities because, 

 undiluted cows' milk cannot be digested by an infant until the tenth month 

 is reached. 



In modifying goats' milk it has been my policy to base my modification 

 on a 5% fat basis. 



All weights herein given are in ounces. 

 For the first month: 



Goats' milk, % ounce. 

 Boiled water, % ounce. 

 Lime water, % to % ounce. 



Feed every three hours. . 



Lime water is gradually diminished until the second month is reached, 

 when the formula is changed to 

 Goats' milk, l 1 /^ ounces. 

 Boiled water, 1% ounces. 

 Mead's Depti Maltose, 1 teaspoonful. 

 Feed once in 3 hours. 



I find malt sugar superior to either sugar of milk or cane-sugar in 

 modifying goats' milk. Third month: 

 Goats' milk, 3 ounces. 

 Water (boiled), 1 ounce. 

 Mead's malt sugar, % teaspoonful. 

 Feed every 3 hours. 

 Fourth month: 



Goats' milk, 5 ounces. 



Water, boiled sufficient to bring fats to 5%. 

 Feed every 3% hours. 



Each month, after the fourth month, gradually increase the amount 

 of the feeding one-half to one ounce a month until eight ounces is reached. 

 And then feed once in four hours. I find that eight ounces of goats' milk 

 will satisfy a child of eight months and will continue to do so until the 

 child has reached the twelfth month, when other food can be given in 

 addition. My experience has been so satisfactory in using goats' milk that 

 I want to recommend it generally to the medical profession. 



CHAS. E. IDE, M. D. 



In Dr. Eustace Smith's well known work on "The Wasting Diseases of 

 Infants and Children," we read: "With some children, in spite of all pos- 

 sible precautions, cows' milk, however carefully it may be prepared and 

 administered cannot be digested * * * In such cases, if there are objec- 

 tions to a wet nurse, recourse must be had to milk of some other animal, 

 and preference should be given to a milk which contains a smaller propor- 

 tion of casein than that found in the milk of the cow, such as goats' milk." 



The "British Medical Journal" of May 12, 1906, quotes with approval 

 the following extract from a paper read by Dr. J. Finley Bell, of Engle- 

 wood, New Jersey, before the New York Academy of Medicine, in which 

 he gave reasons for recommending the more extensive use of goats' milk 

 in the feeding of infants: "Dr. Bell reports two cases of wasting infants 

 in whom improvement began as soon as they were put upon a mixture of 

 goats' milk and water in place of cows' milk modified in various ways, and 

 suggests that the fat of goats' milk being fluid at a point below the normal 



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