Concerning the Effect of Ingested Placenta on the Growth-Promoting Properties of Human Milk

The Functions Op the Internal Secretion of the Placenta

“…Van Hoosen (64), however, noticed increased growth of breastfed infants when the mothers were fed desiccated placenta, as compared with infants subsisting upon milk from mothers not receiving the placental material. However, the general .plan and scope of the work did not allow the drawing of any valid conclusions, although taken together with the note by Hammett and Mc-Neile (65),and the work on the galaetagogic action of the placenta by Cornell (66), pointed to the possibility that the feeding of desiccated placenta to nursing mothers had some effect on the growth of the breast-fed infants. Cornell found that 87 per cent of those infants receiving milk from mothers ingesting desiccated placenta had regained their birth weight by the 4th or 5th day, as com-pared with a 67 per cent regain for the infants ingesting milk from mothers not receiving the placental material.…”