MILK should not be taken in copious draughts, like beer or other fluids which differ from it chemically. If we consider the use of milk in infancy, we shall see that each small mouthful is secured by effort and slowly presented to the gastric mucous surface for the primal digestive stages. It is thus regularly and gradually reduced to curd, and the stomach is not oppressed with a lump of half-coagulated milk. The same principle should be regarded in the case of adults. Milk should be slowly taken in mouthfuls, at short intervals, and thus it is rightly dealt with by the gastric juice. If milk be taken apart from other food it is almost sure to burden the stomach and cause discomfort and prolonged indigestion, and this for the obvious reason that there is not sufficient digestive agency to dispose of it; and the better the quality of the milk, the more severe the discomfort under those conditions.—Popular Science Monthly.