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2. It liquifies the fat, and thus destroys it of an emulsion. 
3. It coagulates the lactalbiimen. 
4. It partly carmelizes the milk sugar. 
5. It destroys the starch digesting ferment, which is always 
present, and which normally aids the digestive fluids in dis¬ 
posing of food. 
6. It alters the taste. 
7. It altogether renders the milk less digestible, so that the 
weak stomach is less capable of digesting and assimilating it. 
These statements of objection apply to all milks, not ex¬ 
cepting even the goat’s milk, the most digestible of all species 
of milks. 
Dr. Conn is authority on milks, to whom the profession de¬ 
pends. 
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE ALBUMINOIDS. 
Nitrogenous 
Nutrients. 
» 
Animal 
Albuminoids. 
1 
Vegetable 
A buminoids 
Gluten of 
Wheat. 
1 
Casein of 
Milk. 
Carbon. 
53.5 
53-5 
52.90 
53-0 
Hydrogen. 
7.0 
7.2 
7.00 
7.0 
Nitrogen. 
15.5 
16.5 
16.95 
16.0 
Oxygen. 
22.4 
21.8 
22.05 
2 -G 5 
Sulphur.. 
1.6 
1.2 
I . 10 
1.5 
Oats. 
Peas. 
1 
Beans. 
1 
Wlieat. 
Barley. 
1 
Maize. 
Mucidin 
from Wheat. 
51.63 
51.48 
51.48 
54.55 
54.69 
5.41 
52.67 
7.45 
7.02 
6.96 
7.27 
7.51 
6.90 
7.10 
17.45 
17.13 
14.74 
15.70 
16.33 
16.32 
18.01 
22.64 
23.97 
26.35 
22.48 
20.78 
21 .48 
21.47 
0.79 
0.40 
0.45 
. 
0.69 
0.88 
0.85 
Food plays a very important part in the economy of man. 
It furnishes brain, and blood, and brawn, the elements of nu¬ 
trition, for heat and repair of body, and for the maintenance of 
health and life. How much of human happiness and peace to 
the family and to the nation depends upon good and ample food 
supply ! Though all life begins in a cell, yet, it is essential that 
that cell should be well fed and served, so that the functions of 
life and that of health shall be secured and maintained through¬ 
out the alloted period of life. 
The hygiene of the home, and of the home individuals, is 
the unit of desires of universal attainment of the blessings of 
long life of the race of mankind. It is the chiefest desire of the 
