Common disorders and diseases of childhood / by George Frederic Still.

  • George Frederic Still
Date:
1909
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    its original fat has been removed, called 'Half-cream Milk', and another called ' Dried Separated Milk ', made from skim milk, and said to contain about 1 per cent, of fat. Another firm pre- pares a dried milk to which cream and milk sugar have been added before desiccation so that a sufficient amount of water can be added to reduce the proportion of proteid as low as 2-5 per cent, without reducing the fat below 3 per cent., and at the same time there is no excess of sugar. This preparation, sold under the name of Glaxo, has the following composition : Proteid . . 21-7 per cent. Tat . . . 25-4 per cent. Milk Sugar . .42-9 per cent. Mineral salts . 5-2 per cent. Water . . 4-8 per cent. After dilution according to their directions, it contains one tenth of these proportions, so that there is fat 2-5 per cent., pro- teid 2-1 per cent., milk sugar 4-29 per cent. Upon one or other of these preparations of desiccated milk an infant will often thrive excellently for a time, but I think it is very advisable that parents as well as medical men should know that any drying of milk must render it liable to cause scurvy if used too long, and therefore these desiccated milks, though safe enough for an infant under four months of age when scurvy rarely if ever occurs, should not be used for older infants for more than a few weeks unless some antiscorbutic such as raw meat juice or orange iuice ]s added to the diet.