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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 330, 7 December 1865, Page 1

Liebkj os Human Milk.—Woman’smilkcontains less salts than cow’s milk, but it possesses a stronger alkaline reaction, and contains more free alkali, which in milk is always potash. It is clear that we can easily calculate what mixture of cow’s milk and flour will contain the same proportion of blood and heat-producing ingredients as women’s (that is to say the proportoin 1: 3 8); but in other respects it would still not replace women’s milk, because wheaten flour has an acid reaction, and contains less alkali than milk. This alkali we must pre suppose is requisite in the body for the normal functions of the child. And even although starch be not unfitting for the nourishment of the infant, the change of it into sugar in the stomaoh during digestion imposes an unnecessary labor on the organisation, which willbe spared it if the starch be beforehand transformed into the solnable forms of sugar and dextrine. This is easily done by adding to the wheaten flour a certain quantity of malt. If a sort of pap he made by boiling milk and wheaten flour, and adding to this a given quantity of malt-flour, the mixture will soon become fluid and acquire a sweet taste. It is on tins transformation of starch into sugar, and by supplying the failing alkali in the milk, that the preparation of this uew soup is based. —Popular Science Beriew.