The Journal of Home Economics, Vol. 12

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Excerpt from The Journal of Home Economics, Vol. 12: January, 1920 Milk (48) is of only moderate value as an antiscorbutic and loses most of the value when pasteurized or boiled. Commercial condensed milk (49) is valueless and so, too is dried milk unless the drying is done very quickly, e. G. For a few seconds at 116° (hess and Unger) (50) Numerous observations have been made of infantile scurvy developing from use of pasteurized milk and its check by the addition of orange juice. In this connection should be mentioned a very valuable summary, though without the work of the last two years - Morse's A Résumé of the Literature of Infantile Scurvy during the Past Five Years in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (52) cites numerous recent dis tressing cases of infantile scurvy abroad, for instance, in Prague in 1917-18 when the much desired raw milk was often of doubtful rawness, oranges had disappeared from the markets since early in the war, and other fruits and even most green vegetables were dificult to obtain and usually very expensive. Fresh meat has so little antiscorbutic value that the Royal Society (36) states that as much as two to four pounds daily are necessary if it is to be used as the chief preventive agent, and tinned meat is completely valueless. Dutcher, Pierson, and Biester (53) find practically none even in raw beef. Their laboratory experiments do not confirm Stefansson's remarkable report (54) of his polar experiences. His habit, and that of his party in the north, was to live almost wholly on seal meat and bear meat, using not only the muscle tissue, but liver and various other organs. Often they consumed raw frozen liver. They had no cases of scurvy on this diet. However, three men, who were separated at times from the main party and depended largely on some cached foods which they had found - ¿our, salt pork, butter, honey, sugar, pilot bread, pre served fruit, pemmican, meat extract, dried fruit, rice, beans, and pear developed serious scurvy. They were promptly cured when fed meat, largely raw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.