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IN conditions of infantile diarrhœa restriction of milk from the diet causes rapid improvement of the condition: if the milk diet is resumed too early, the symptoms rapidly appear again. This shows that, most probably, there is a relation between the milk and the symptoms of infantile diarrhœa. It may be that in the milk there are factors which stimulate the motility of the small intestine and thus cause its rapid evacuation.
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MOHAMED, A., ZAKI, O., ZAKI, K. et al. Effect of Different Types of Milk on Intestinal Motility. Nature 185, 773–774 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185773a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/185773a0
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