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1.9 if it be excluded. This brand is not labelled as
recommended for the feeding of infants, but in the
course of inquiries made it was found to be very extensively
used. With the same dilutions as those given
in the preceding case, the amounts of food-stuffs
given, made up to 2 litres in the 24 hours, would
be—
Do. excluding
Dilution. Proteids. Fats. Carbohydrates. Cane Sugar. Salts.
1 to 5 28.3 3.3 165.8 66.2 8.3
1 to 14 11.3 1.3 66.2 20.4 3.3
It will be seen on comparing the figures for the
condensed milks with those for human milk,
that the amount of nutritive material contained
in the standard allowance of 2 litres in the 24
hours falls considerably short of that contained
in 2 litres of human milk. To any suggestion
that some of the deficiency can be made up by
giving more of the mixture, the answer is that
the infant's stomach cannot receive more than a
certain quantity of food, whatever its composition,
without causing indigestion and sickness. In the
use of condensed milks, or of the majority of them,
there is the further disadvantage of the presence of
the added cane sugar. This is not only prone to
ferment if the diluted mixture be kept after
making, but also to cause indigestion in the child.
The use of condensed milk has for the poorer
classes the advantages of small price, especially the
"starvation" brands of skim milks, and of ease of
preparation, so that it would appear to be an almost