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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    Brewer states that in cows suffering from vaccinia the millc was strongly alkaUne, and the sugar was ahnost completely absent. The milk of phthisis is said to be greatly altered; but I regret that I have not been able to obtain specimens of milk from this disease for examination. My thanks are due to Professor Attfield for the kind- ness with which he checked the analyses, and also for the suggestions he made from time to time diu-ing the period these investigations were being conducted. To sum up, my experiments suggest the following conclusions:— 1st.—That milk from individual cows is liable to con- siderable variation. 2nd.—That it is possible for good average milk to be watered to a limited extent without detection. 3rd.—That the casein, under certain circumstances, undergoes modification both physical and physiological. 4th.—That the food of milch cows affects the quaHty of the milk. 5th.—That milk can be the vehicle of contagion. By du-ect communication of the contagion, either by the water used for purposes of adulteration, or by the vessels in which it is stored bemg cleansed with impure water. By the absorption of the contagion by the ex- posure of mUk to deleterious gases. That in extreme mstances power to communicate disease is produced in the milk itself, probably from an altered secretion of diseased animals.