Word: cow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food" and wanted to substitute for it bread boiled in beer and honey. Substitutes for mother's milk have been made from cow's milk mixed with soft water, lactose ("sugar of milk") and phosphate of lime. This a vigorous newborn child can assimilate. But the frail bambino must have natural human milk...
Dried Human Milk. Not always is fresh human milk available. So Dr. P. W. Emerson of Boston (reporting in the American Journal of Diseases of Children) has worked out a method of drying human milk. The process is similar to that used in desiccating cow's milk for canning. This dried human milk has been acceptable to a small number of babies as food, not the most preferable food, yet sustaining to life. In some cases this milk had to be fortified with sugar. Then the infants gained rapidly. Later they were able to go on a diet of cow...
...Pasteurized cow's milk costs from 10¢ to 15¢ a quart in most U. S. cities...
...Laplanders keep reindeer for milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...
...minerals soluble in water. He pointed out that there must be a sheet of subterranean water in the locality since wells have to go down only 10 to 40 feet. Finally, he pounced upon a sink hole they showed him only a few hundred feet from the white cow's sulphurous swimming hole. This hole was only just big enough to admit the body of a cow, but a local ranchman had lately dropped a small herd of dead cattle into it one by one. That accounted for the white cow, and the white cow appeared to prove...