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.
If the vomiting be so severe as to affect nutrition, the child should be sustained by peptonized milk, soup, or gruel, given by the bowel.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
The preparation given in recipe No. 1, or with the barley water added, may be peptonized.
From Public School Domestic Science by Hoodless, Adelaide
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.
Diet.—Should be hot or cold milk with lime water or peptonized milk if necessary.
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
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)
By the action of a peptonizing powder composed of a digestive agent known as the extractum pancreatis and bicarbonate of soda.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
The milk may be peptonized if necessary, using ½ tube of Fairchild’s peptonizing powder.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
They wanted me to examine the aphorisms and orisonswettmardenisms they had been printing on their weekly envelopes, for the inspiration and peptonizing of their employees.
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
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