Excerpt from Foods and Their Adulteration The text of the body of this work has been carefully revised and the statistical matter brought up to date. Many of the paragraphs have been entirely re-written, but in general the text and the sequence of the articles remain as in the first edition. Two new parts of importance have been added to the volume, taking the place of the regulations for inspection and the rules and regulations for the enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, which are now of such wide distribution as to need no place in this work. The space so saved by the exclusion of these appendices has been given to an expansion of the article on infants' and invalids' foods and to a new part devoted to simple tests for ordinary adulterations which may be practiced with some degree of success in the household. In the section devoted to infants' and invalids' foods an attempt has been made to describe in a practical way the preparation and care of foods of this class, accentuating meanwhile the supreme importance of the natural supply of milk for infants under the age of one year, or where this is denied the substitution of wholesome, fresh cow's milk, modified to resemble, as nearly as possible, the natural sustenance of the infant. The composition of some of the principal substitutes for the natural foods of infants has been given with a note of warning as to the danger of the employment of even the best of these foods to the exclusion of nature's natural food supply. This article has been written with no spirit of antagonism towards the prepared foods for infants, but only to bring promptly before the mind of the lay reader, as pointedly as possible, the supreme importance of using the natural food even when an artificial preparation resembles it as nearly as can be. The article on invalids' foods has been written in the light of recent medical studies, which show that wholesome food is not only the best prophylactic but also in many cases, especially of chronic diseases, the best remedy at the service of the physician. Proper nutrition is extremely effective in preventing some forms of disease, and proper feeding, based on scientific principles, the most effective remedy. 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.