Word: milkings
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Americans seem to have a consuming interest in snakes. They must be told repeatedly that there is no such thing as 1) a hoop snake, which is supposed to put its tail in its mouth and roll downhill when frightened, or 2) a milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah...
...reason for the occurrence of many cases at about the same time, says Ingalls, is simultaneous exposure to the virus rather than the spread from person to person. Ingalls and his colleagues believe the disease may behave like measles or scarlet fever. In this case, the contamination of milk or food may account for epidemics, as it does with those diseases...
...Frozen milk is not on the market yet, but dairy companies are experimenting and the armed services are interested...
...knowledge of the baby or its fate. No witnesses could corroborate the mother's story, and no signs on the small body indicated the cause of death. The chief clue was a tiny pinch of white dust found in the baby's stomach: 45 milligrams of dried milk left over from the baby's last meal...
Last week's New England Journal of Medicine tells how Vermont's State Pathologist Joseph W. Spelman solved the mystery. Cow's milk, he knew, differs from human milk in its relative amounts of calcium and phosphorus ash. Human milk during the first 30 days after a mother gives birth is also different from the milk of mothers between one and nine months after birth, and that of mothers after nine months. Analysis of the specks from the dead baby's stomach showed that their composition almost exactly matched that of mothers with babies nine months...