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Materia Alimentaria

Milk

the ninth month the most proper for weaning children. Dr
Haller on the contrary says long nursing makes healthy children.
Louis the 14th was at the breast 20 months and was healthy
and long lived. This is also confirmed by the indians of our
country. Dr Cullen thought long nursing predisposed to
rickets this is not the case as this disease is seldom
seen among our Indian children who are nursed two and
three years. Dr Cullen says children ought to use vegitable
diet by the 5th month. Milk is verry nutritious hence it
may be used in some cases of great Ematiation I believe
it proper in diseased states of the fluids. I say this without
giving my believe of the Putrifaction of the fluids. It is
injurious in scrophula as this is a disease of lymphatics
and is verry common among our children Indians. Milk has
been recommended in Phthisic it was a favorite remedy
with Dr Sydenham in this disease and since his time
has been used indiscriminately in every case, this disease
is often founded in Phlogistic diathesis, and the arterial
system and often requires the use of bleeding and other
debilitating remedies, in such cases it must appear evident