Marasmus: you are quite right that the treatment was goat milk. It is a form of severe protein deficiency like Kwashiokor in Africa. My grandfather Dr. med. Franz Rudofsky was a firm believer in the use of goat milk for this condition. Severe malnutrition of the lactating mothers and hence the babies was an rampant in Bohemia at the turn of the 18/19 turn of the century, particularly west of Bischofteinitz. Ulrich Rudofsky