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Show PASTEURIZATION. The discovery made by the celebrated French scientist that heating milk to a certain temperature tempera-ture destroyed the germs, bacteria and other undesirable unde-sirable ingredients which made the consumption of. raw milk a menace to the health, especially of infants, was hailed a few yours ago as one of the most important discoveries of medicine in a century. cen-tury. The various cities of the land took up the subject, and in some places laws were passed compelling com-pelling pasteurization before it Mould be legal to sell milk to the consuming public. A. reaction has set in, however, and among the more or less famous doctors who ore opposed 1o pasteurization i Dr. S. .1. Essenson. private practitioner and member of the staff of Beth Israel hospital? New York, who in a communication to the Xew York Herald says pasteurization, at the same time it is killing the bacteria, destroys the nourishing ingredients of milk. He says the process exposes a child "to a lack of nutrition, and, consequently, to the inroads ' of disease." He further says that, authorities on child feeding feed-ing have abandoned pasteurization for this reason. Commenting editorially on the communication of Dr. Essenson. the Herald says such testimony is worth a ton of theory. It reinforces the judgment of many experts that to adopt compulsory pasteurization pas-teurization for a city's milk supply would be a colossal mistake. In dealing with the problems of a pure food supply, it is well to be right before going ahead, but when the great discovery of Pasteur is thus condemned by latter-day doctors, it is pretty hard for ihe layman to know just what to do. In the matter of milk supply, it seems that the wisest ihing to do is to get milk from good cow?, clean cows, healthy cows, and use it as it comes from the cow, without sterilization, separation or other process. That seems to be the best opinion of the day, but what the best opinion of tomorrow may be is open to question. 1 |