Milk in health and disease. / by A. Hutchinson Smee.

  • Smee, A. Hutchison (Alfred Hutchison), 1841-1901.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Milk in health and disease. / by A. Hutchinson Smee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Dr. Tlaorne Tliorne, in the Twelfth Eeport of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, states that since the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease a large increase of diarrhoea took place amongst childi-en in affected dis- tricts ; herpetic and aptlieous patches in the mouth frequently occm'red to them. He however admits that in some districts which were being supplied with affected milk no morbid symptom was produced among the popu- lation. This negative testimony is also confirmed by the epidemics at Paris. Boiling the milk is said to remove effectually the danger from contagion. At the Hertford county-jail 130 prisoners were supplied with milk from cows suffering from foot-and-mouth; none of the prisoners were affected, but the milk was always boiled with gruel. Thi'ough the kindness of Mr. Coleman, veterinary siu'geon at Sutton, I was enabled to examme a quantity of mUk from an Alderney cow suffering from foot-and- mouth disease. Water. Total solids. Fat. Casein. Ash. Sp. G. Aldeniey COW: I ^ ^^.g ' foot-and-mouth | Another severe case 87-54: 12-J=G 3-5 — -6 1030 From the above analysis it appears that the milk from foot-and-mouth disease does not differ in composition, according to oiu' present method of analysis, from an ordinary milk, although as regards yield it is less than one-half the normal quantity.''' * Donne, however, has noticed that the milk of a cow suffering •with la inalarie aiUheuse, which I take to be foot-and-mouth disease, closely corresponds with colestrum ; but my researches on milk from this disease does not confirm this view. This difference, however, may be accounted for by the milk in Donne's case having been taken from a cow soon after calving.