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 "Solidified" and "Condensed" Milk. Professional itinerants, such as actors, etc., who are unwilling to leave their cares behind, by necessity use such milk, as fresh and good milk could not always be obtained; and it would be dangerous to a child to thus change daily the quality of the milk. But "solidified" and "condensed" milk are not made by the same process. The process now used in "condensing" requires no chemical adjunct; while the "solidified" requires the presence of bicarbonate of soda, and one-fourth of sugar. Hence, for an infant, I would recommend the "condensed" in preference to the "solidified."

The advance in this science is truly gratifying, and many of the foods now so prominently advertised have great merit. Some are prepared from rich, full cream milk, combined with the valuable nutritive extracts of malted barley and wheat. Such a product, being highly concentrated and partially predigested, supplies the greatest amount of nutrition with the least tax upon the digestive organs. They come in convenient powdered form, and are easily prepared. Such full and perfect directions accompany each package that it is useless to go into details here. We recommend, however, that in all cases, where the mother's or cow's milk does not agree with the baby, to immediately substitute one of the recognized prepared foods, either in combination with milk, or prepared by simply adding water.