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MILK.
First
Food
of
all
Mammals
—
Skim
and
Butter
Milk
—
Chemicals
used
in
its
Preservation
—
Condensed
Milk
—
Syllabubs
—
Koumiss
—
Its
Early
Use
—
When
first
utiHzed
in
Medical
Treatment
—
Koumiss
from
Cows'
Milk
—
Methods
of
Manufac-
ture
—
Intoxicating
Drinks
made
from
Milk.
MILJv
is
the
first
liquid
food
taken
by
man,
in
common
with
all
mammals,
after
his
birth
and
this
liquid
is
so
happily
ordered,
as
to
contain
all
the
elements
of
food
necessary
for
him,
at
this
period
of
his
existence.
The
new-born
mammal
naturally,
and
directly
after
its
birth,
seeks
the
fountain
of
its
nourishment,
and
even
that
most
helpless
of
all
created
beings,
a
baby,
is
soon
taught
where
to
seek
its
food.
But
we
have
to
consider
milk
as
a
beverage,
more
than
as
a
food,
and,
as
a
drink,
it
is
comparatively
a
failure,
as
to
most
people
it
is
indigestible,
if
taken
in
any
quantity.
It
may,
however,
be
taken
with
com-
parative
impunity
as
skim
milk,
i.e.
when
deprived
to
a
very
large
extent
of
its
fat,
and
of
a
hot
day,
for
a
perfect
thirst
quencher,
let
us
commend
slightly
acidu-
lated
butter
milk.
Milk
has
very
great
disadvantages
as
a
beverage
:
first,
that
it
will
not
keep
good
any
time,
unless
chemicalized
.by
salicylic
acid,
borax.