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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 52, 30 December 1867, Page 323

Liebig’s As.’amxsiAXj.r Pbepabed Milk.—This celebrated chemist has made' .a communication to the French Academy of Sciences on the subject of prepared milk. He says* that, the composition of milk is not uniform.; the proportions of caseine, sugar of milk, and butter vary, as is well known, with the nature of the mother’s food. “I take,” says Liebig, “for the b?se of my composition the normal form uf woman’s milk, after the analysis of MHaidlen, of Giessen, and of which 1000 parts contain 31 parts, of caseine, 43 of spgar of milk, and 21 of butter. The plastic arid heat-giving substances in this 'xnilk amount to 10 in 38 ; in that of the <Jow unskimmed, as 10 to 30; and in the same skimmed, as 10 to 25. I employ for .my preparation skimmed milk, wheat flour, sprouted barley, and bi-carbonate of potash. It cannot be said that starch is unfit lor the nourishment of infants; but it is nevertheless true that its transformation sugar in the stomach; imposes useless labour on the organization of the suckling ; this is spared by first converting the starch into sugar, or soluble dextrine. This consideration accounts for my use of germinated; barley, or malt, finny preparation; ; it is also important that the consistency of the mixture should be suehsutbat it oan be by means of a feeding-bottle.” The preparation of the artificial milk is thusi described: Sixteen grammes of flour ; are boiled m ten times its own weight of skimmed milk, until the mixture is perfectly homogenous; it is then removed trom the fire, and immediately afterwards is added to it sixteen grammes’ of the bar- ! ley ground in a coffee-in ill,, and mixed with twice its weight of cold water and tiiree grammes of a solution of bi-carbonate ot potash, consisting of eleven paits of water to two parts of the salt. 'After the - addition of the barley arid bi-carbonate, . ® .vessel is placed either in hot water or • 3 d a . ppsition until the mixture shall have lost its thickness, and assumed the consistency of cream. At the end of fifteen or.twenty minutes the vessel is again placed in the. fire and allowed to boil for a f® w s^, onds > after which the milk is passed through a close.-linen or hair strainer, in order if of its fibrous matter of the this milk to the however, be allowed to ? rat rest, so that the finer fibrous / matter Stall held in suspension may subBide. ;: Milk prepared after this method • con ® lM almost; exactly the -same fleshmaking and ; heat-giving, substances as ' “ormai women’s milk,—that is to say, 10 to and after being carried >to the boilit will keep .good in summer for hours -“~ J °urnal of the Society . The La.te .Riot ur Melboubne. —?The Argus, 16th December, says William roßs, the unfortunate hoy ..who, received a - g n!r ot * "oundin the right breast on the night; of the 27th November, in Stephen- ■ ex bmed at the Melbourne Hospital Gross had not been gone above half- ! anW W^en er 8011 a PP aren tlywifchou< The, Pbince and- the Admibalty In- ; STEHCTIONS.—The MelbourneHeraldsaye - n.v’T * n a -^ ew Zealand paper states bat Sir George Grey., received a. message ; irom_ the Prince, intimating,his ~ hopestc spend Christmas in. Hew Zealandhut .> Com “ od °re Lambert refused to recognise any departure the Prince - from the route laid down in the instructions of the *- Admiralty, , ~ t .., ;. ; Peisoh Commission.— Hisi Honpr. Mi Justice ; Johnston, ,His Honor, Mr Justice \ - -uriobfuond, the Hon, ColonelT!eacocke,G. !:M.H.3R-.and{ dairies ;have been appointed a Commission .to‘.enquire into and. report ' ’~ u ori working; of; the prison daws, itHe ?a a a agementj the gaols in ihe coyj' r ‘ *o. n J» a ud the desirability, of/founding;;a Penal, ■ ; T; ““rion istoreportwito k.