A dissertation on milk. In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases. Likewise ... to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race ... / [Samuel Ferris].
- Samuel Ferris
- Date:
- [1785]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on milk. In which an attempt is made to ascertain its natural use; to investigate experimentally its general nature and properties; and to explain its effects in the cure of various diseases. Likewise ... to enforce the cautions and restrictions, which are necessary to be observed by those, whose duty or business it is to suckle an infant race ... / [Samuel Ferris]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fitively, that fuch property in rennet, in.dif- ferent flowers, &c. is owing to the latent acid which they contain.* But I am in- clined to think that the contrary is true be- yond doubt. We know that alkalies have the fame power, though poflibly by a dif- ferent a€tion; for the coagulum formed by them fwims on the furface of the whey, — while that which acids form finks to the bottom. : - But. if this coagulating power depend upon an acid latent in rennet, in the gaftric liquor, ! ’ Likewife a ferum fcorbuticum made by boiling 3 iv. of the juices of fcorbutic herbs in ]bj. of cow’s milk. And in the Pharmacopoeia of St. George’s Hofpital a /erum fmapinum is directed, which is made by boiling 3 fs. of bruifed muftard feeds in lbj. of cow’s milk mixed with as much water. New cow’s milk fuffered to ftand for fome days on the leaves of butterwort (pinguicula) or fundew, becomes — ‘uniformly thick, ‘flippery and coherent, and of an agreeable fweet tafte, without any feparation of its parts. Freth milk added to this is thickened in the fame man- ner, and this fucceffively. In fome parts of Sweden, as we are informed in the Swedifh memoirs, muk is thus prepared for food. Neumann’s Chem: Works by Dr. Lewis, p. 572. * Chemical Dictionary, called Macqnier’s.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33288057_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
