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Materia Alimentaria

Milk

the following case occurred under my own observation. I gave
to a woman two grains of Opium it had little or no effect on
her, in two hours after she suckeled the child and it
immediately went to sleep and laid composed for twenty four
hours, fluid diet greatly increases the secretion of milk. Some
women are subject to costiveness during lactation. I knew
two women who dread Lactation on this account being quite
free from it both before and after. The milk of Bitches fed on
vegitables may be coagulated with vinigar, but is more
alkaline. If on meat it is not coagulable. Since the days
of Dr Cullen the Pathology of the fluid I think has been
too much neglected. I am convinced that the nature
of aliments very much alters the nature of our fluids for
instance the phosphoric acid is very much increased by a
meat diet, milk is the proper food for infants, it must by
coagulated before it can be digested we are therefore not to consider
the pukeing of young children an unhealthy sign. Other milk
is nutritious to the infant besides that of its mother. I know
a person who is remarkably healthy aged twenty eight years
and who was rais'd on cows milk. Dr Cullen supposed