This section is from the book "Diet In Sickness And In Health", by Mrs. Ernest Hart. Also available from Amazon: Diet in Sickness and in Health.
Dr. Cheadle considers that too much reliance is placed on cod-liver oil, chemical food, lime, and iron. Drugs are not so useful as proper diet. Cream can take the place of cod-liver oil, milk of chemical food, and albuminous foods of iron. The diet of a rickety child should be most carefully examined; and when it is found, as it usually is, that the child is being fed too exclusively on a farinaceous food, the missing elements of fat and albumen must be restored. This is best done by means of cream and cod-liver oil. If cream cannot be taken, boiled cow's milk, milk puddings of entire wheat, and raw meat pulp (the making of which was described in the chapter on invalid foods) may be given. Syrup of lacto-phosphate of lime is useful; but the best of all medicines are fresh air, sunlight, and outdoor life. Parents should be on their guard with respect to many of the condensed milks advertised as good and reliable foods for infants. As has been recently pointed out in the British Medical Journal, some of the advertised condensed milks are made of separated milk, deprived of 90 per cent. of their fats, and are even worse foods for infants than skimmed milk. To bring up an infant on condensed separated milk is to ensure its having rickets. Those who have the care of children will be glad to know that the Milkmaid Brand of Anglo-Swiss condensed milk is reliable, and is made of whole milk. Mothers must be not only wise but wary if the)' would have healthy and happy children.
 
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