Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeding of infants when the mothers cannot do so with their own milk has been an arduous task for physicians. They have been at their wit's end for substitutes. Wet nurses will not always do, sometimes because they are unavailable, more often because they may suffer from contagious diseases to which their own offspring may be immune. Dr. Brouzet (Sur I'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...
Last week the Children's Welfare Federation of Manhattan, through Miss Mary Arnold, its Secretary, recounted how it procured 1860 quarts of milk from 98 human mothers in 1925, how it kept 296 babies alive, babies that probably would have died in the 26 hospitals in which they were cared...
...Federation has three mother's milk depots at three Health Stations. Thither come mothers who are producing more milk than their own babies need. They can sell the balance of the day's production and earn thereby enough money to keep from working. If they went to work while breast feeding, their own children would suffer from irregular nutrition. Besides, the energy the mothers need for creating milk would go into work. They could go around as wet nurses. But there too the effect of irregular hours would tell. The foster baby would also probably suckle more milk than...
Charlotte is on the eastern coast of Vermont, not far from Otter Creek, a river famed in history and much too hot a ride in a power beat on any August day. It has various inhabitants, varying in 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...
...people want to do away with what St. Paul said and put up the gentleman from Georgia instead. Prohibition has no real milk of human kindness in it. It is contrary to culture, to geniality, to refinement...