peptonize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.
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to hydrolyze or dissolve by a proteolytic enzyme, as pepsin.
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Is it better to peptonize the whole day's supply, or each bottle separately just before feeding?
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
To completely peptonize the milk, two hours are required.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
Another modification which at times may be ordered by your physician is peptonized milk.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
The ready-made peptonized preparations vary very much, like some of the beef extracts, but a trial will discover which of them is best fitted for an individual case.
From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by Mitchell, John K.
Since it is infrequent for the proteins of milk to be the cause of indigestion, peptonized milk has only a limited use, chiefly in cases of acute illness.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
Partially peptonized milk assists greatly in digesting the curd of milk.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
In severe cases milk either diluted with water or lime water or peptonized should alone be used.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
As Author William Bolitho once wrote, adventure's "adepts are rarely chaste, or merciful, or even law-abiding at all, and any moral peptonizing, or sugaring, takes out the interest, with the truth, of their lives."
From Time Magazine Archive
The milk may be peptonized if necessary, using ½ tube of Fairchild’s peptonizing powder.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
Digesting or peptonizing group, those capable of rendering the casein of milk soluble and more or less completely digested.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by Russell, H. L. (Harry Luman)
If the latter disturbs the digestion reduce the amount temporarily, or add one-half the contents of a tube of peptonizing powder, or one-quarter of a glass of limewater.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
In carrying out the process the milk, whether whole or modified, is placed in a clean bottle, and the peptonizing powder added after having been rubbed up with a teaspoonful of milk.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
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