Humboldt mentions the case of a man whom he saw, and upon carefully investigating the case found that he secreted enough milk or nutrient fluid to support his infant son for some months. ("Humboldt, Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent.") Robert, Bishop of Cork, wrote a letter concerning a man who gave suck to a child. (Phil. Trans. 1741, No. 461, vol. XLI, p. 813.) The following persons also speak of this: Franklyn, Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, 1819, p. 157. Cobbold, Milk from Male Mamma, Monthly Journal of Medical Science, 1854, vol. XVIII, p. 271. Morgagni (Adversaria Anatomica . Omnia V. Animadversio, p. 31). The following analysis of milk taken from the breast of a newlyborn infant may be of interest: Water 95.705 1.456 0.956 0.557 0.490 0.826 4.295 Albumen. Total solids.. -(From Jahrb. F. Kinderkrankheiten N. F. Bd. IX, S. 160.) In the Recherchès sur le Lait. III Bruxelle, 1856, is recorded the case of an old lady of seventy-five years of age, who suckled her grandchild. Jolly and Filhol record a case of milk taken from a bitch who had had no connection with a male: Water, 71.00; fat, 2.20; sugar, 0.32; casein and albumen, 23.20. The specific gravity was 1.069 at 60° Fahr. The ash or salts were analyzed, and gave: Chloride of sodium, 65.10; chloride of potassium, 3.88; phosphate of lime, 27.75; phosphate of soda, 1.40; carbonate of soda, 1.87. In the Annalen der Chemie u Pharmacie, 1844, Schlossberger gives the following analysis of milk taken from a he goat: Water, 61.30, fat, 26.50; casein and salts, 9.60; sugar and salts, 2.60. Plants will impart an odor, taste and color to milk. The following list are said to impart a peculiar color to milk, after being eaten by cows: 1st. Reddish Botanical name. Galium verum. Rubium tinctorum. Carex. Scirpus. Equisteum. Ranunculus. Many plants do impart a decided taste and odor to milk. The following is a list: Botanical name. Allium ursinum. Helleborus niger. Matricaria chamomilla. Common name. E. Ramsons. Cypress spurge. E. Hedge hyssop. Wild onions will impart a very strong odor to the milk as well as a taste; this fact is undoubtedly familiar to all. Various kinds of unhealthy foods will produce milk not only abnormal in the proportions of its constituents, but in its reactions, and such milk must be considered unhealthy, although produced by an apparently healthy animal. As for instance, the use of distillery swill. A case where the use of such milk was followed by the death of the child to whom it was given, is shown here by the following letter from Dr. Bartley: EDWARD W. MARTIN: BROOKLYN, February 6, 1884. DEAR SIR-Your card is received. The following is a copy of the record of the autopsy filed in the county clerk's office, of the child you refer to: I made an autopsy on the body of Stanlie F. Heyden, of No. 281 Bergen street, August 1, 1882. I found the. stomach exceedingly soft and delicate, and filled with coagulated milk, forming quite a firm lump over three inches in diameter. The stomach was also reddened. The intestines were very pale and entirely bloodless, and contained a pale, slimy material characteristic of inflammation. The membrane of the intestines was also closely studded with little whitish specks, which were enlarged glands. All the other organs of the body were normal, except the marked paleness. In my opinion death resulted from exhaustion; (collapse) due to gastro-entro-colitis; augmented by the presence in the stomach of the firm clot of coagulated milk, which was too firm for the child to vomit up or pass down into the gut, and therefore acted as a foreign body and irritant. (Signed) A. H. P. LEUF, M. D. Appended, I find the mother's statement as follows: "I am the mother of the child. He was four months old. He took sick on the same day, and we went to the druggist and got some medicine. The child died soon afterward. We sent for Dr. Bartley, but he arrived just after the child died. He was fed on one cow's milk.” The mother gave me some of the milk, which, on analysis, I believed to be "swill" milk, and the man when accused of it, at first denied it, but afterward admitted that he "fed grains." The curd formed from the milk was exceedingly tough, and could be shaken to pieces with difficulty. This was especially seen in the estimation of the fat with the lactobutyrometer; after adding ether, it required very long shaking to break up the clots of casein. The fat was deficient in quantity. The curd very abundant. The specific gravity 1.030. Sugar not estimated. Hoping this will be satisfactory, I am, Very truly yours, TLEY E. H. BARTLEY. The analysis of this milk was made by Dr. Bartley, with the following results: Water, 89.46; fat, 2.03; sugar, 2.83; casein and salts, 5.74. As has been before stated, abnormal milk should be considered unwholesome, even if the animal is not suffering with any disease, because the more abnormal the milk the greater is the difference between it and human milk. There is only one period at which a healthy cow will secrete unhealthy milk, and that is after the birth of the calf. Such milk contains colostrum (see Fig. 2, plate 2), and such milk taken by the young or by invalids might produce very harmful results. The colostrum is in the milk at that time for the purpose of purging the calf, and its results on the young or sickly can readily be imagined. The lacteal gland in its healthy, normal condition is a very sensitive organ, affected by every change in the general health of the system. It is, therefore, not surprising that the quality and quantity of the milk should be greatly influenced by a general unhealthy condition of the system as well as by some local disturbance in the gland. In one case indigestion has the effect of causing milk to become stringy either immediately or after some time, and it is to coagulate. In another case the same cause increases the tendency of the milk to become sour and to coagulate. Blue and yellow milk have been perplexing phenomena for many years. It is due to a peculiar decomposition of the casein, brought about by |