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...education medecinale des enfants) thought so poorly of human mothers that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food" and wanted to substitute for it bread boiled in beer and honey. Substitutes for mother's milk have been made from cow's milk mixed with soft water, lactose ("sugar of milk") and phosphate of lime. This a vigorous newborn child can assimilate. But the frail bambino must have natural human milk...
...number according to the season. The main products are milk and wise cracks of the vintage of the gay nineties. The milk is very good. The most original feature of the landscape is the cemetery in which lie those two sires of even wortheir stock, Mr. Root and Mr. Beer--lie so near in fact that the names on their granite shafts make sense when read from left to right as one crosses the hill. Here I once wandered with an old lady of uncertain step and wavering voice who was later proved the village lunatic. She was the only...
Meanwhile a poll carried on through the press on the question of retaining the prohibition law or repealing it, or changing it to permit light wines and beer, brought about a million ballots, in which the proportion of dry votes was only about one in nine...
Congressman Celler read George Washington's beer recipe into the Record and said he was going to send it to his constituents. Congressman Somers of New York proposed to have ballots for and against light wines and beers printed and furnished with franked envelopes for every Congressman to send to his constituents...
Wayne B. Wheeler retorted for the Anti-Saloon League: "Do the people want beer and wine? The minority does. The majority does not, or it would secure them by legal and orderly methods. The majority has spoken its mind on this question, not once but repeatedly; not in straw votes but in official ballots, and that majority has rejected the wine and beer plan...