Eyesight, and how to care for it / edited by George Black.

Date:
[1888]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Eyesight, and how to care for it / edited by George Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BABY'S PERFECT FOOD Milk diluted with Barley Water made from HOBART EGBERT, Esq., A.M., M.D., writing in Health, January 6th, 1894. For those children who cannot properly digest cow's milk we recommend Barley Water to be mixed with it. 'All about Babies,' J. H. WHELAN, Esq., M.D., in recommends— Barley Water as a diluent of milk to .be made from Robinson's Patent Barley. CHARLES BUTLER, Esq. (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons), in his work, The Feed- ing of Infants, page 46, writes— Another expedient to render cow's milk more easy of digestion is to mix It with Barley Water; the latter also possesses a nutritive value of its own. Ihe value of Barley Water cannot be too much extolled. The Hygiene and Dietetics of Infancy, by R. J BLACKAM, Esq., M.D. (U.S.), L.R C.P. (E.)i ^uMf' ^u'^ ^.'■'^y '° ''^ 'hat cow's milk curdles in large pieces, whereas human m,lk curdles in fine threads ; the addition of the Barley Water makes the mixture curdle similar to human milk A FINE POWDER, SOLD IN 1-lb. and i-lb. TINS.