INFECTION FROM MILK.
[To THE EDITOR Or THR SPROTATOR."J
Sia,—At the foot of my letter which you have done me the honour to print in the Spectator for June 25th, you pat the very pertinent inquiry, —P Would Dr. Huxley never allow a mother to nurse her infant ?" This is important, and demands a careful answer. Here is a case where you cannot improve upon Nature. It is the exception to the rule, and has its value that way ; but it has also the peculiar value, whilst being an exception, of upholding my contention at the same time. For it is the fact that con- stitutional disease can be conveyed from nurse to child in the Milk, against which there is then no direct means of protection ; and also that medicines taken by the mother may be trans- ferred to the child in the same vehicle. This, then, is the ex- ception to the role of cooking all animal food; and it must remain insuperable until such time as it may be thought feasible to boil the mother (!) in order to cook the milk.
Deeming this matter to be now threshed out, I would only offer the parting exhortation,—Eat no uncooked animal food, and above all, drink no unboiled milk.—I am, Sir, '&c.,
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