Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health Stations the nursing mothers come. They are given a minute physical examination to make certain that no child contracts disease from them. Their diet is inquired into, because certain products (like garlic) in the nurse's food would make the milk unpleasant. If all is well, a certain amount of milk is taken from their breasts, an amount carefully regulated so that the natural child will not be starved. Some mothers yield only 3 to 4 ounces* a day. Others give 15 to 20 ounces. The average output approximates 10 ounces a day. For this milk the nurse...
...canning. This dried human milk has been acceptable to a small number of babies as food, not the most preferable food, yet sustaining to life. In some cases this milk had to be fortified with sugar. Then the infants gained rapidly. Later they were able to go on a diet of cow milk formula. They gained well, probably because of the additional protein present in the fresh fluid...
...Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals are using music in their tuberculosis wards, he said. "With proper care, diet, sanitation and music we can all live to be 150 years...
...rare as the famed Ibis of Mt. Auburn Street. For the patriarchal purveyors of discretion whose efforts at enforcement have recently disturbed these young Benchleys in their better moments will feel the loss even more keenly than Lampie's more firmly established contemporaries. And many a lonely subscriber whose diet for years has consisted of the Transcript, the Atlantic, and the Lampoon will turn in desolation to muted memories of merrier days...
...burst of jazz! A season of teas, balls, the opera and other girls' debuts! Heavenly for a year, but like a perpetual diet of whipped cream...