It is certainly a sign of progress that babies are today given vegetable juices to supplement their usual gruels and milk food. I am sure that this is one reason why vitamin deficiencies are much rarer now than years ago. Infant mortality has also decreased considerably, and it is quite possible that better nutrition has contributed to the improvement.
But what happens when the loving mother has prepared the juice with such care but the carrots, for example, contain poison? How ouzzled she must be when her baby does not put on any weight or, worse, loses weight, despite her constant attention. The baby’s stool becomes thinner and thinner, but the doctor is unable to diagnose the cause, having eliminated the possibility of its being coeliac disease.
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