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reason to nurse her baby. Professor Rotch is well 

 within the truth when he says that these foods are 

 " kept in the market by the physician rather than the 

 manufacturer. The latter is only doing what any 

 capitalist interested in a business venture would do. 

 The former, it seems to me, is, perhaps uninten- 

 tionally, aiding the business ventures of others at 

 the expense of his own reputation as a scientist." " 

 There is absolutely no necessity to-day for the use 

 of a single one of the infant foods which are so exten- 

 sively advertised. They are practically all inferior 

 to the best grades of condensed milk — and equally 

 as harmful as the worst grades. Personally, I wish 

 that it were possible to enlist the women of America 

 in a great crusade against these "foods" to the extent 

 of boycotting the physician advising their use and 

 every newspaper and magazine publishing advertise- 

 ments of them. 



For the milk of the mother the best substitute is 

 the milk of some animal, such as the goat or the cow, 

 modified to resemble the human milk as closely as 

 possible. Of the two animals the goat is in many 

 respects superior, but for various reasons it is not 

 generally used as a milk provider, and the cow is 

 practically the only animal so used in this and many 

 other countries. Superior though the goat may be, 

 it is extremely improbable that it will assume the place 

 of the cow as the wet-nurse of the American baby at 



