Mellin's Food

Mellin's Food Works was a maker of Mellin's Food for Infants and Invalids in London, England.^[1]

Mellin's Food Company (Doliber-Goodale Company) was a maker of Mellin's Food for Infants and Invalids in Boston, Massachusetts.

History

The company started when the English food chemist Gustav Mellin developed an infant formula in 1866.^[2] Mellin's formula was a simplified version of one which had been recently invented by the German chemist Justus von Liebig.^[3] It wasn't a total nutritional supplement; the powder was diluted with cow's milk and water and was called a "milk modifier".^[2] It was a "soluble, dry extract of wheat, malted barley and bicarbonate of potassium."^[4] The formula was advertised with the slogan: "Mellin's Food for Infants and Invalids: The only perfect substitute for Mother's Milk".^[5]

The "Mellin's Airship" being flown by Stanley Spencer in 1902

In 1902, the Mellin Food Company sponsored the construction of the United Kingdom's first airship by Stanley Spencer. The completed airship carried an advertisement for Mellin's Food on its envelope. On 22 September 1902, Spencer flew the "Mellin's Airship" (officially named "Airship No 1") across London from Crystal Palace to Harrow.^[6]

Mellin's Food for infants and invalids, was also made by The Doliber-Goodale Co., 41 Central Wharf, Boston, MA.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]} It was sold in Australia.^[16]

References

1. "Advertisements" (PDF). Edinburgh Medical Journal. 8 (2). August 1900. PMC 5256707. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
2. Andrew Smith (2013). "Baby Food". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. ISBN 9780199734962.
3. Brock, William H (1997). Justus Von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper. Cambridge University Press. p. 247. ISBN 0-521-56224-4.
4. Jacqueline H. Wolf (2001). Don't Kill Your Baby. Ohio State University Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780814208779.
5. Bentley, Amy (2014). Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet. University of California Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-520-27737-3.
6. "Stanley Spencer's Airship No 1 Makes First Powered Flight in Great Britain" (PDF). www.blimpinfo.com. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
7. Doliber, Goodale & Co. (1883). "Mellin's food for infants and invalids : its description and analysis : advice to mothers on the care and feeding of infants : useful information for nursing mothers and invalids". School of Medicine Library. University of South Carolina. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
8. "Mellin's Food for infants and invalids, The Doliber-Goodale Co., 41 Central Wharf, Boston, Mass., 1891". digitalcommonwealth.org. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
9. "An Infant Food". Wisconsin's Malted Milk Story. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
10. "The care and feeding of infants". digital.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
11. Company (Boston), Mellin's Food (1905). The Care and feeding of infants. 1905. Mellin's Food Company. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
12. "Mellin's food for infants and invalids, "our baby"". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
13. "Mellin's Food for Infants". Museum of Health Care at Kingston. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
14. "Mellin's Infant's Food". Dorchester Historical Society. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
15. "Mellin's Food For Infants". MSU Libraries. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
16. "MELLIN'S FOOD". The Argus (Australia). 1 March 1899. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

External links

• Mellin's Food at Archive.org
• Mellin's Food at IMDb