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An important fact (says the Scientific American) has been discovered by physiologists, namely, that the saliva of an infant, before it has its teeth, is incapable of converting starch into sugar. This explains at once why all attempts of substituting farinaceous food in place of mothers milk in the case of infants invariably fail; such children cannot digest starch, and arc underfed or even starved, dying finally of marasmus. Starch, arrowroot, tapioca, etc., are useless, because indigestible for children before they have cut their teeth. An Englishman, visiting the White Mountains, complained of the excessive hilliness of the country in all that region, " Waal, yes, wc hev rather too much laud to the acre about here, and so we hev to stack it!"

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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1172, 1 May 1874, Page 3

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Untitled Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1172, 1 May 1874, Page 3

Untitled Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1172, 1 May 1874, Page 3

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