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pare with the aid of a thermometer and a commer- 

 cial rennet preparation in a few minutes. (The 

 whey must be heated to 68 degrees C. or 154 degrees 

 Fahrenheit to kill the enzyme, before it is mixed 

 with milk). 



"With combinations of whey, skim milk, cream 

 and milk sugar you can play any dietetic tune you 

 please on the infant organism, and with these foods 

 the intelligent parent can rear any infant which can 

 live at all. The especial usefulness of whey is due 

 to its abundant mineral content in natural physio- 

 logical solution. It serves as a stabilizer — a cor- 

 rective. 



"You can do no harm with whey unless you use 

 the evaporated preparation, whey powder. It is pos- 

 sible by an abuse of this food to cause edema (in 

 weak infants) thi-ough excessive ingestion of min- 

 erals, though this would never occur in its proper 

 use. 



"The commonest metabolic disturbance in infants 

 is gastro-intestinal indigestion. Its commonest cause 

 is a weak digestive apparatus and too much fat in 

 the food. Alkali soaps, formed in the intestine, in- 

 stead of being digested and absorbed are passed oflf 

 in the feces. 



"Alkalis are lost to the organism; mineral acids 

 are left to predominate; infantile acidosis ensues. 



"Because of its low oxidative capacity the infant 

 organism is especially subject to acid intoxication 

 from relatively slight causes, the acid excess being 

 due to the normal acid products of metabolism and 

 to imperfectly oxidized organic compounds, espe- 

 cially betaoxybutyric acid. We have mentioned the 

 weak digestive apparatus and deficient capacity to 



