temperature of the body, may interfere less with gastric secretion, while 

 it is not less digestible by the pancreatic juice. Other advantages which 

 he claims for the goat are: She is more docile, less excitable, not subject 

 to tuberculosis or other disease in this climate. Being browsers rather 

 than grazers, they will thrive when cows would not; and, above all, she is 

 cleanly. Her excrement is solid and her tail short; consequently she is not 

 covered with manure, as is the cow. It is safe to assert that the produc- 

 tion of cows' milk free from manure bacteria is commercially impossible. 

 Not so with the goat; she can be easily washed (tubbed if necessary) and 

 aproned for milking." 



"I am quite certain," writes Dr. Lee r of the Children's Hospital, Great 

 Ormond street, London, "that if a hundred children were fed on goats' milk, 

 and compared with an equal number of corresponding ages (all circum- 

 stances being similar) who were fed on any other milk, except that of their 

 mothers', the goats' milk choldren would, in comparison at least with 'those 

 fed o:?. cows' milk have an advantage." 



A fuller explanation by Dr. Demande, director of the sanitarium at 

 Haelbert, Belgium, which was read at the First Annual Congress for the 

 Improvement of the Goat, has just been quoted by Mr. Holmes Pegler in 

 the "Bazaar" (a journal which has given space to the subject of goat-keep- 

 ing every week for many years). "It is not only," says the doctor, "that 

 among the 300,000 goats of Belgium there is probably not one affected 

 with tuberculosis, while among the cows there might be anything between 

 50 per cent and 75 per cent of animals suffering or showing signs of this 

 disease. Goats' milk being wholesome and beyond suspicion, there is no 

 need to sterilize it. It may be taken raw, still palpitating with those mys- 

 terious forces which constitute life, whilst cows' milk, which needs to be 

 boiled, sterilized killed, in fact is a -.congealed, defunct liquid. D'Esch- 

 ensch, who has studied comparatively fresh milk and sterilized milk, has 

 shown that rnilk is not merely a nutritive liquid, but that it is clear that 

 children that are delicate have need of the ferments contained in raw milk, 

 and are quite incapable of digesting milk rendered inert by sterilization." 



The Dr. Demande mentioned has reported a number of cases that have 

 come under his personal observation, in which children who seemed doomed 

 to an early death while being fed on cows' milk grew up strong and healthy 

 by the use of goats' milk. 



It is not necessary to go outside of one's neighborhood to learn of 

 many cases of mal-nutrition. A recent case coming under the writer's 

 observation is typical. A four months old baby could not keep cow's milk, 

 modified cows' milk or any of the commercial baby foods on its stomach. 

 It became very weak and its life was dispaired of. As a last resort it 

 was sent to a baby hospital where a wet nurse was available but the baby 

 continued to fail and after the baby had lost six ounces in weight it was 

 sent home as hopeless. 



The original doctor gave the case up. Another doctor recommended 

 trying goats' milk. A very limited amount of goats' milk was obtained, 

 and, strange as it may seem, the baby retained it, although it was fed 

 without diluting or modifying. In two days it had gained two ounces and 

 in five days, five ounces. The baby has now gained a pound. An attempt 



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