00.

"Alcoholic drinks materially alter these proportions, for, on
the analysis of the milk of the same woman, a few hours before
and after the use of a pint of beer, it was found that the
alcohol increases the proportion of the water, and diminishes
that of casein; and that alcohol is very perceptible in it."

"The only rational way to be adopted by mothers to increase the
supply of nutrition for their infants, is to secure plenty of
suitable nutritious food, prepared in the way that will most fit
it for digestion, while they at the same time, avoid as far as
possible all fatigue, and mental excitement. It is impossible
that alcoholic beverages can add anything to the nutrition of
either the infant or mother."--Dr. Bussey, in _Stimulants for
Nursing Mothers_.

Dr. E. G. Figg, in _The Physiological Operation of Alcohol_, gives the
analyses of the milk of a temperate woman in good health, and of a
drinking woman as follows:--

Milk of temperate mother. Milk of drinking mother.

Salts, " " 8.50 Salts, " " 5.50
Casein, " " 3.0 Casein, " " 2.0
Oil, " " 7.50 Oil, " " 6.5
Water, " " 81.0 Water, " " 84.0
Alcohol, " " 2.0
------ ------
100.00 100.00

Dr. Edward Smith says in his _Practical Dietary_:--

"Alcoholics are largely used by many women in the belief that
they support the system, and maintain the supply of milk for the
infant; but I am convinced that this is a serious error, and is
not an infrequent cause of fits and emaciation in the child."

Dr. James Edmunds, of the Lying-In Hospital, London, Eng., says in _Diet
for Nursing Mothers_:--

"The nursing mother is peculiarly placed, in that she has to
provide a supply of nutriment for the child which is dependent
upon her, as well as for the ordinary requirements of her own
system. The nutrition of the child is to be provided for upon
the same principles, and by the same food-elements, as is the
nutrition of the mother, the only difference being that the
young child is possessed of less perfect masticatory and
digestive powers, and therefore requires food to be presented to
it in a state more simple, uniform, and readily assimilable than
the adult,