The care of infants : a manual for mothers and nurses / by Sophia Jex-Blake.

  • Sophia Jex-Blake
Date:
1903
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    II.] frankland’s artificial milk. basis, and has also stood the test of practical experience, I think it worth while to give it in full, with the added testimony of Mr. Walker of Spondon,^ who says: “With Dr. Frankland I can affirm that I have saved the lives of sundry children, that would assuredly have died without this artificial milk.” The object in view is of course to get rid of the excess of casein {i.e. about one-third of the whole “ curd ” of cow’s milk), and this is accomplished as follows :— FranJdand's Artificial Milk.—Take half a pint of new milk and let it stand about twelve hours. At the end of this time skim off the cream, and add the cream to a pint of perfectly fresh new milk. To the half pint of skim milk add a piece of rennet about an inch square, and let the vessel containing it stand in hot water till the milk has thoroughly curdled.^ Eemove all the curd, which it is our object to get rid of. To the remaining whey, add a little powdered sugar, warm it, and then pour it into the pint of new milk to which the cream has been already added. In this way we shall have obtained a milk which contains all the cream and salts of the pint and a half of new milk, but only two-thirds of the casein; and with a little added sugar, this fluid will very closely ap- proach the composition of the human milk, which ^ Lancet, 23d August 1884. ^ As soon as the curdling commences the rennet should be removed, and put aside in an egg-cup for future use, as it cat be employed daily for a month or morn,