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Creator (Definite): Medicus (Our Dogs contributor)Date: 18 Nov 1932
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Cited byT. Quick, 'Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care,' Journal of British Studies 58 (2) (2019), pp. 289-314.
Description:The proliferation of Lactol and similar foods contributed to a more generalreconceptualization of dog feeding as a scientific endeavor. Ads for Spratt’s Malt Milk, Vigor, and MartinMilk all emphasized their chemical nutritional credentials... Such rhetoric spilled over into the dog advice literature of the period... Medicus, having only rarely touched upon the nutritional requirements of dogs prior to the First World War, regularly returned to the topic during the 1920s and 1930s, acting as an arbiter on the relative nutritional virtues of commercial products and cheerleading the adaptation of fashionable foods such as orange juice and whole wheat to canine requirements. [note: 'For example, Medicus, “Notes for Novices: “Whole Wheatmeal Feeding,” Our Dogs, no. 89 (18 November 1932): 528; Medicus, “Notes for Novices: The Latest about Vitamins,” Our Dogs, no. 93 (1 December 1933): 653; Medicus, “Notes for Novices: Yeast for Dogs,” Our Dogs, no. 112 (12 August 1938): 507. On the health benefits accorded wholemeal bread at this time, see Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, “‘Not a Complete Food for Man’: The Controversy about White versus Wholemeal Bread in Interwar Britain,” in Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory Policies Practices, ed. Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, and Ulrike Thoms (Rochester, NY, 2017), 142–64.']' (297)
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Description:'I am very glad the big dog-biscuit firms are placing on the market biscuits of the usual type, but made wholly of wheatmeal and meat. There is a rapidly growing need for biscuit food of this type, and this demad is due to the scientific results which have accrued since vitamins were discovered, and food scientists have been pursuing investigations along that line of inquiry, with remarkable results. It is beyond all question that, whether it be for human or canine food, the whole content of the wheat grain is to be preferred. I know that veterinary surgeons all over the country are systematically advising whole-meal feeding, and there can be no doubt that there will be a great demand for the whole wheatmeal and meat biscuits that are now available.'
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Description:'I am very glad the big dog-biscuit firms are placing on the market biscuits of the usual type, but made wholly of wheatmeal and meat. There is a rapidly growing need for biscuit food of this type, and this demad is due to the scientific results which have accrued since vitamins were discovered, and food scientists have been pursuing investigations along that line of inquiry, with remarkable results. It is beyond all question that, whether it be for human or canine food, the whole content of the wheat grain is to be preferred. I know that veterinary surgeons all over the country are systematically advising whole-meal feeding, and there can be no doubt that there will be a great demand for the whole wheatmeal and meat biscuits that are now available.'
