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board of trustees

[September 26,

3. The aversion of the average American to goats, their odors, and the flavor of their milk greatly limits the usefulness of goat's milk. J. Howard Beard January 3, 1924 TESTIMONIALS FROM EXPERTS "I have had no experience with goat's milk and, therefore, am unable to answer the question in your letter. M y own baby was hypersensitive to cow's milk and could take goat's milk. Such cases in which the child is hypersensitive to cow's milk must be very rare."—E. A. Park, Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University. "Your letter received. I have successfully used goat's milk in cases in which the child has been sensitized to cow's milk. I feel that i has quite afieldfor usefulness in t such children—all of which means there is very little market for goat's milk."—Charles Gilmore Kerley, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, College of Physicians, N e w York City, N.Y. "I have had at m y disposal, at the Mount Sinai Hospital, a herd of goats which furnished the milk for m y nurslings in the hospital. In spite of all the literature which you have got on the subject of goat's milk, and which I grant is more or less true, the babies would not take this milk. W e had i delivered fresh. It had a peculiar odor like the t perspiration of a working man, and I think i is this that was objectionable to the t babies, and the little scheme was a failure although we tried it conscientiously in cases of malnutrition, diarrhoea, and other diseases. This is the information which I have to give you concerning goat's milk. It is not a practical infant food."-—Henry Koplik, M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, N. Y. "I have never found that goat's milk was of any advantage in infant feeding, notwithstanding the various claims which are put forth by those particularly interested in its sale. "The only instance in which it is of any particular value is where the child has an anaphylactic reaction to cow's milk. In such cases, I have found i of considerable t value, otherwise, i has no marked value over cow's milk which is certainly more easily t controlled as to production and sale than the ordinary goat milk supply."—William Palmer Lucas, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, University of California. "I feel quite as you do that the literature on the subject of the superiority of goat's milk over cow's milk is quite insufficient to warrant the statements that are made by those interested in the production of goat's milk. I have had no personal experience, and therefore I hardly feel qualified to express m y opinion. I do know that in certain instances in which the infant is susceptible to cow's milk, goat's milk has been very satisfactorily used. O n the other hand, I feel that very few nutritional disturbances can be treated more satisfactorily with goat's milk than with cow's milk. I regret that I can not give you more definite information."'—Kenneth D. Blackfan, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. "The advantages of goat's milk that might be cited are that the goat produces more milk in proportion to the intake of food than does the cow and then the goat does not develop tuberculosis as readily as does the cow. The goat, however, is not immune to tuberculosis and inasmuch as pasteurization and boiling of cow's milk for other reasons is considered a necessity of safety, the relative freedom of the goat from tuberculosis really is of no practical value. "In the fahrbuchfur Kinderheilkunde Band, 102, Heft 5, page 257 and also Heft 6, page 357, Dr. E. Brouwer of Holland reports the result of a rather extensive study of the role played of goat's milk in the production of an anemia. This author maintains that a very high percentage of children who are fed with goat's milk develop this anemia. The report of his work is to be completed in the next number of the Jahrbuch, but as far as he has gone, his conclusion regarding the value and necessity of goat's milk in the feeding of infants will unquestionably be adverse. "In the Zeitschrift fur Untersuehung der Nahrungs und Genussmittel, Volume 15, page well kind of that this. Iis a animal producing the peculiarthe foodwhich isproducts.is now the known food there out that goat's between truthand milk, from the the goats get is13, K. Fischermade from goat's there milk suggests thatthis statement depending upon responsible for which imagine milk. He has a milk receives which also it acteristic of butter points the difference is some milk in pallormainly becausechar-